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STOCKHOLM — Sweden met its target of becoming smoke-free in 2025 with less than five percent of the population smoking cigarettes daily, though a quarter of the population still used nicotine daily in some form, such as vapes and snus, a report showed Monday.
The number of daily smokers fell from 16 to 4.8 percent between 2003 and 2025, according to the report published by the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN).
A country is considered smoke-free when less than five percent of its population are daily smokers.
A report by Sweden's Public Health Agency in 2024 put the number at 5.4 percent. Its next survey was to be conducted sometime in 2026.
