page_title: Smoking in Germany
section_title: Cigarette smoking among adults, 2013
hierarchical_section_title: Smoking in Germany / Statistics / Cigarette smoking among adults, 2013
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Prozentualer Anteil der Raucher in der jeweiligen Altersgruppe nach Geschlecht.
context_page_description: Under federal law the manufacture, importation, distribution, and advertisement of tobacco is regulated whilst the 16 federal states of Germany each have their own legislation regarding smoking in public places, which range from relatively weak regulations to full smoking bans in all licensed premises, childcare facilities, schools and governmental institutions. As of July 2016, nearly 40% of the German population live in a state which bans smoking in all restaurants, pubs, cafés and nightclubs. The other 13 states permit smoking in designated rooms or in bars with a floor area of less than 75 square meters.
  According to a 2013 micro-census survey, 24.5% of the German population aged fifteen years and over are smokers. Among the 18–25 age group, 35.2% are smokers.
context_section_description: According to a 2013 microcensus, about one in four (24.5%) people aged 15 years and over was a smoker, 20.9% regularly, and only 3.6 occasionally. The rate of ex-smokers was 19.3%. The average age at which smokers begin is 17.8 years of age (in the age group of 15- to 20-year-olds the average age is 15.4 years)
caption: Smoking rate among adults by age and gender
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