Overview

• Santé publique France reports that in 2024, 24% of adults aged 18–79 smoked and 17.4% smoked daily, while 44% had never smoked.
• Authorities hail the decline as a major public-health advance and note that prevalence has returned to pre-pandemic levels.
• Daily smoking remains about twice as common among manual workers as among executives and triples for people reporting financial difficulty.
• Rates vary by region, peaking in Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (20.9%), Occitanie (20.6%) and Grand Est (19.8%), and lowest in Île-de-France and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
• A majority of daily smokers want to quit and 17.3% made a week-long attempt in the past year, with the heaviest daily use concentrated among 30–59 year-olds at an average of 12.8 cigarettes.