Press release No. N 036 of 28 May 2021
- 458,000 patients treated in hospital for relevant cancer diagnosis or the COPD lung disease in 2019
- Risk of dying from lung and bronchial cancer has strongly increased recently, especially for women
- Every adult in Germany consumed an average 1,063 cigarettes in 2020
WIESBADEN - In 2019, a total 458,000 patients in Germany were treated in hospital for a smoking-specific illness, 57% of whom were men. To coincide with the World No Tobacco Day on 31 May, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the number of such full in-patient treatments rose 18% on 2010. 211,300 of those cases were due to lung, bronchial, laryngeal or tracheal cancer and 246,700 to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The average age of the treated patients was 67.3 years (cancer diagnosis) and 70.5 (COPD).
Basic data and long time series are available in table Taxation of tobacco products: Germany, years (73411-0001) in the GENESIS-Online database.
