Table 1.

Time trend in current cigarette smoking (age standardized) among adults for selected Arab countries, 2006–09

Country	Year	Current cigarette use % (age standardized)
		Male age standardized	Female age standardized
Bahrain	2006	21	2
	2009	29	7
Egypt	2006	24	1
	2009	33	0.5*
Iraq	2006	29	3
	2009	26	3
Jordan	2006	59	10
	2009	42	3
Lebanon	2006	31	7
	2009	46	31
Morocco	2006	27	0.2
	2009	28	2
Saudi Arabia	2006	22	3
	2009	19	0.5*
Syria	2006	40	–
	2009	35	–
Tunisia	2006	53	6
	2009	53	4
UAE	2006	24	2
	2009	15	0.5*
Yemen	2006	28	6
	2009	30	10

Adapted from WHO (2009c, 2011).

Data represent the actual survey years when the data were collected.

*A value of 0.5 was used when the data source indicate the % use as <1.