Nearly one in five people in Malta aged 16 and over use tobacco or related nicotine products every day, according to new Eurostat figures for 2025. The data shows that 18.8% of people in Malta are daily users of tobacco or related products, including cigarettes, e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products and nicotine pouches. This places Malta above the EU average of 16.5%, where roughly one in six people use these products every day. Across the European Union, Bulgaria (26.3%), Sweden (23.9%) and Croatia (23.6%) recorded the highest rates of daily tobacco and nicotine product use. At the other end of the scale were the Netherlands (9.9%), Ireland (11.7%), Belgium (13.6%) and Luxembourg (13.8%).