This presentation is based on a cross-sectional survey of health and smoking undertaken in Ukraine in 2000. Full details are published in the journal Preventive Medicine:

Gilmore A, McKee M, Telishevska M, Rose R. Smoking in Ukraine: epidemiology and determinants. Preventive Medicine 2001;33:453-61.

A similar study has also been published for Belarus (Gilmore A, McKee M, Rose R. Smoking in Belarus: evidence from a household survey. European Journal of Epidemiology 2001;17:245-53. Abstract available on http://www.kluweronline.com/oasis.htm/355383 and surveys in other countries of the former Soviet Union are currently being undertaken (see http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/centres/ecohost/projects.htm#tobacco )