The Public Opinion Research Unit of the University of Macedonia Research Institute conducted a cross-sectional survey on a representative sample of 4058 adults living in Attica prefecture.

Survey was conducted by CATI mode (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviewing), in cooperation with Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, the National School of Public Health and the Department of Pharmacy, University of Patras. An equivalent study was published in the Internal and Emergency Medicine and it is  available here and here.

Some of the most important findings are:

  1. More than 1/3 of the participants cut off smoking in the last 3 years.
  2. 40% of Greeks who cut off smoking after 2014 used or use an electronic cigarette.
  3. One out of 20 participants considered that e-cigarettes are less harmful than smoking.
  4. The majority of current e-cigarette users were former smokers.