Table 05. Age of onset of cigarette use. Proportion of boys and girls having tried cigarettes and having smoked cigarettes on a daily basis at the age of 13 or younger. 2015. Percentages.

Table 5. Age of onset of cigarette use. Proportion of boys and girls having tried cigarettes and having smoked cigarettes on a daily basis at the age of 13 or younger. 2015. Percentages.

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	First cigarette			Daily cigarette use			First cigarette, no response (all students)	Daily smoking, no response (all students)
	Boys	Girls	All students	Boys	Girls	All students	First cigarette, no response (all students)	Daily smoking, no response (all students)
Albania	31	16	23	3	1	2	0	2
Austria	26	22	24	3	3	3	0	3
Belgium (Flanders)	16	12	14	3	2	3	0	1
Bulgaria	24	26	25	7	7	7	0	1
Croatia	35	29	32	7	4	5	0	1
Cyprus	22	11	17	6	3	4	0	1
Czech Republic	45	40	43	7	6	6	0	1
Denmark	16	13	14	2	2	2	1	2
Estonia	51	41	46	9	7	8	0	0
Faroes	27	15	21	2	2	2	1	5
Finland	32	23	27	8	4	6	0	1
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	17	7	12	4	2	3	1	2
France	30	24	27	5	5	5	0	1
Georgia	28	13	21	6	2	4	1	2
Greece	18	11	14	2	1	2	0	1
Hungary	32	25	28	6	5	5	0	1
Iceland	11	7	9	2	2	2	0	0
Ireland	19	13	16	4	2	3	0	2
Italy	23	20	21	4	3	4	0	1
Liechtenstein	22	24	23	4	5	5	0	0
Lithuania	50	40	45	9	5	7	1	2
Malta	11	14	13	3	4	3	1	1
Moldova	33	8	21	3	1	2	1	2
Monaco	33	28	31	6	6	6	0	1
Montenegro	19	14	17	4	2	3	0	1
Netherlands	19	14	16	4	3	3	0	0
Norway	15	11	13	1	1	1	1	3
Poland	32	24	28	5	4	4	0	2
Portugal	25	23	24	4	5	5	0	1
Romania	27	19	23	7	4	5	0	2
Slovakia	41	30	36	9	6	8	0	1
Slovenia	21	20	21	2	2	2	0	1
Sweden	16	16	16	2	3	3	0	5
Ukraine	37	25	31	8	2	5	0	3
AVERAGE	27	20	23	5	3	4	0	2
Latvia	54	41	47	11	8	10	0	2
Spain	14	14	14	3	3	3	3	2
United States ^a	.	.	12	.	.	2	9	8

^a Used by end of 8th grade, approximate age is 13. Daily use is based on the percentage of regular smokers.