European Health Survey  
USE AND EXPOSURE TO TOBACCO
Average age at beginning to use tobacco of daily smokers, by sex and Autonomous Community. Average and standard deviation. Population aged 15 years old and over that smokes daily.
Units: Average and standard deviation

	Average	Standard deviation	
Both sexes	
    Total	17.38	4.81	
    Andalucía	17.38	5.40	
    Aragón	17.29	5.90	
    Asturias (Principado de)	17.63	4.78	
    Balears (Illes)	17.70	4.76	
    Canarias	17.36	4.98	
    Cantabria	16.93	3.10	
    Castilla y León	17.17	3.78	
    Castilla-La Mancha	17.72	4.89	
    Cataluña	17.58	4.98	
    Comunitat Valenciana	17.22	4.92	
    Extremadura	16.59	3.53	
    Galicia	17.69	4.97	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	17.25	4.16	
    Murcia (Región de)	17.28	4.34	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	17.56	4.47	
    País Vasco	17.28	4.42	
    Rioja (La)	17.33	4.46	
    Ceuta (Ciudad Autónoma de)	16.85	4.79	
    Melilla (Ciudad Autónoma de)	18.34	4.01	
Men	
    Total	17.07	4.54	
    Andalucía	16.92	5.08	
    Aragón	17.49	6.64	
    Asturias (Principado de)	17.04	3.53	
    Balears (Illes)	17.41	3.91	
    Canarias	16.98	4.30	
    Cantabria	16.91	2.97	
    Castilla y León	17.04	3.91	
    Castilla-La Mancha	17.29	4.49	
    Cataluña	17.28	4.59	
    Comunitat Valenciana	17.24	5.24	
    Extremadura	16.23	3.34	
    Galicia	17.45	4.50	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	16.67	3.23	
    Murcia (Región de)	17.05	4.30	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	17.48	4.97	
    País Vasco	17.19	4.46	
    Rioja (La)	16.73	3.46	
    Ceuta (Ciudad Autónoma de)	.	.	
    Melilla (Ciudad Autónoma de)	.	.	
Women	
    Total	17.80	5.13	
    Andalucía	18.01	5.75	
    Aragón	17.03	4.80	
    Asturias (Principado de)	18.36	5.88	
    Balears (Illes)	18.21	5.93	
    Canarias	18.03	5.94	
    Cantabria	16.97	3.27	
    Castilla y León	17.34	3.60	
    Castilla-La Mancha	18.37	5.38	
    Cataluña	18.09	5.54	
    Comunitat Valenciana	17.20	4.42	
    Extremadura	17.15	3.73	
    Galicia	18.04	5.55	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	17.88	4.89	
    Murcia (Región de)	17.54	4.37	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	17.69	3.62	
    País Vasco	17.42	4.35	
    Rioja (La)	18.13	5.43	
    Ceuta (Ciudad Autónoma de)	.	.	
    Melilla (Ciudad Autónoma de)	.	.	
Notes:

.Data protected by statistical secrecy

1) The symbol '.'  shall be deemed as datum which cannot be given due to an insufficient sample
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as datum which is not collected for that classification of the table
 The data corresponding to cells with less than 35 thousand persons must be considered with caution, as they may be affected by a high degree of sampling error
Source: National Statistics Institute