In 2020, the male smoking rate in Malaysia remained nearly unchanged at around 43.8 percent. But still, the rate reached its lowest value of the observation period in 2020. The prevalence of current tobacco use is the percentage of the male population aged 15 years and over who currently use any tobacco product on a daily or non-daily basis. Tobacco products include cigarettes, pipes, cigars, cigarillos, waterpipes, bidis, kretek, heated tobacco products, and all forms of smokeless tobacco. Tobacco products exclude e-cigarettes (which do not contain tobacco), “e-cigars”, “e-hookahs”, JUUL and “e-pipes”.
Prevalence of smoking for males is the percentage of men ages 15 and over who smoke any form of tobacco, including cigarettes, cigars, pipes or any other smoked tobacco products. Data include daily and non-daily or occasional smoking.
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World Bank. (October 24, 2024). Prevalence of smoking for males in Malaysia from 2000 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 30, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/732844/malaysia-male-smoking-rate/
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