Lifestyles and preventive practices. Absolute figures 
Average age at beginning to use tobacco of daily smokers, by sex and Autonomous Community. Average and standard deviation. Population aged 16 years old and over that smokes daily
Units: average and standard deviation

	Average	Standard deviation	
BOTH SEXES	
    Total	17.35	4.55	
    Andalucía	17.37	4.65	
    Aragón	16.67	4.27	
    Asturias (Principado de)	17.69	5.62	
    Balears (Illes)	17.48	5.00	
    Canarias	16.58	3.30	
    Cantabria	17.53	4.90	
    Castilla y León	17.37	4.65	
    Castilla-La Mancha	17.13	3.87	
    Cataluña	17.43	4.71	
    Comunitat Valenciana	17.43	4.43	
    Extremadura	16.90	4.07	
    Galicia	17.33	3.93	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	17.59	4.68	
    Murcia (Región de)	17.19	4.42	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	17.28	4.57	
    País Vasco	17.67	5.53	
    Rioja (La)	17.42	3.89	
    Ceuta and Melilla	17.07	3.45	
MALES	
    Total	17.04	4.14	
    Andalucía	17.01	4.19	
    Aragón	16.21	4.18	
    Asturias (Principado de)	17.13	3.78	
    Balears (Illes)	17.37	4.45	
    Canarias	16.20	3.15	
    Cantabria	17.36	4.85	
    Castilla y León	17.09	4.21	
    Castilla-La Mancha	16.77	3.71	
    Cataluña	17.34	4.20	
    Comunitat Valenciana	17.02	4.22	
    Extremadura	16.57	3.30	
    Galicia	17.28	3.89	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	17.28	4.06	
    Murcia (Región de)	16.73	3.67	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	16.84	4.44	
    País Vasco	17.31	5.46	
    Rioja (La)	17.18	3.67	
    Ceuta and Melilla	16.67	2.94	
FEMALES	
    Total	17.78	5.05	
    Andalucía	17.90	5.20	
    Aragón	17.26	4.30	
    Asturias (Principado de)	18.20	6.86	
    Balears (Illes)	17.66	5.80	
    Canarias	17.22	3.44	
    Cantabria	17.71	4.96	
    Castilla y León	17.84	5.28	
    Castilla-La Mancha	17.76	4.05	
    Cataluña	17.56	5.38	
    Comunitat Valenciana	17.98	4.64	
    Extremadura	17.36	4.94	
    Galicia	17.42	4.00	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	17.90	5.23	
    Murcia (Región de)	17.92	5.33	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	17.90	4.68	
    País Vasco	18.23	5.58	
    Rioja (La)	17.79	4.16	
    Ceuta and Melilla	17.81	4.13	
Notes:
1) Population aged 16 years old and over that smokes daily
The symbol '.' shall be deemed as data which cannot be provided since it may be affected by sampling errors.
 The symbol '..' shall be deemed as data which is not collected.
 The symbol '...' shall be deemed as an 'error of division by zero'.
Source: Ministry of Health and Consumption and INE