Table 4 Cigarette smoking prevalence in Germany in 2003 and 1992.

Age groups (years)	35–39	40–44	45–49	50–54	55–59	60–64	65–69	70–74	⩾75
Smoking status in the Telephone Health Survey, 2003
Men
Current	0.42	0.40	0.39	0.28	0.24	0.21	0.14	0.12	0.12
Former	0.25	0.27	0.33	0.35	0.35	0.42	0.42	0.52	0.51
Women
Current	0.38	0.35	0.37	0.31	0.23	0.17	0.11	0.06	0.06
Former	0.23	0.25	0.26	0.27	0.28	0.21	0.17	0.22	0.22
Change to Microcensus 1992 (applied by Welte et al4)
Men
Current	−0.03	0.01	0.02	−0.04	−0.04	−0.04	−0.05	−0.06	0.00
Former	0.07	0.07	0.10	0.11	0.08	0.08	0.04	0.16	0.19
Current	0.05	0.06	0.13	0.15	0.09	0.05	0.02	−0.02	0.03
Former	0.09	0.12	0.13	0.18	0.20	0.13	0.07	0.13	0.17

Source: Robert Koch Institute,¹³ Federal Statistical Office.³⁵