Cuban President Fidel Castro, who gave up smoking years ago, once joked about giving away boxes of cigars, saying, "The best thing to do is give them to...
Cuban President Fidel Castro, who gave up smoking years ago, once joked about giving away boxes of cigars, saying, "The best thing to do is give them to your enemy." Explore the most complete set of 6.6 million time series covering more than 200 economies, 20 industries and 18 macroeconomic sectors. A Gallup survey conducted in May 2007 found that 45 percent of Cubans had smoked the day before the survey, demonstrating the prevalence of smoking in the country. Cuba, an upper-middle-income country, is an island located in the Caribbean Sea with a population of 11.2 million inhabitants. Since the 1980s the life expectancy of the population has been increasing, reaching 78.45 years in 2014 (1) . Members of the population aged 60 years and over represented 11.9% of the whole population in 1990, which increased to 19% in 2014. According to projections, this proportion is expected to reach 29.9% by 2030 (2). sethshumidor
