Lifestyles and preventive practices. Absolute figures 
Average age at beginning to use tobacco of ex-smokers, by sex and Autonomous Community. Average and standard deviation. Population aged 16 years old and over that does not currently smoke but has smoked previously
Units: average and standard deviation

	Average	Standard deviation	
BOTH SEXES	
    Total	17.16	4.49	
    Andalucía	16.83	4.45	
    Aragón	17.23	4.23	
    Asturias (Principado de)	17.39	4.71	
    Balears (Illes)	17.07	4.04	
    Canarias	16.84	4.19	
    Cantabria	17.06	3.72	
    Castilla y León	17.64	4.21	
    Castilla-La Mancha	16.99	4.21	
    Cataluña	17.32	4.42	
    Comunitat Valenciana	17.31	4.83	
    Extremadura	15.81	3.71	
    Galicia	16.98	4.39	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	17.29	4.57	
    Murcia (Región de)	17.23	5.02	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	17.09	3.87	
    País Vasco	17.48	5.07	
    Rioja (La)	17.10	4.20	
    Ceuta and Melilla	18.23	5.21	
MALES	
    Total	16.80	4.27	
    Andalucía	16.43	4.34	
    Aragón	16.82	3.96	
    Asturias (Principado de)	16.66	3.62	
    Balears (Illes)	16.41	3.04	
    Canarias	17.03	4.45	
    Cantabria	16.74	2.99	
    Castilla y León	17.75	4.41	
    Castilla-La Mancha	16.48	3.28	
    Cataluña	17.07	4.12	
    Comunitat Valenciana	16.78	4.52	
    Extremadura	15.50	3.72	
    Galicia	16.53	4.45	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	16.83	4.30	
    Murcia (Región de)	16.79	4.27	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	17.04	4.12	
    País Vasco	17.20	4.99	
    Rioja (La)	16.75	4.38	
    Ceuta and Melilla	17.81	4.98	
FEMALES	
    Total	17.88	4.84	
    Andalucía	17.80	4.54	
    Aragón	18.15	4.67	
    Asturias (Principado de)	18.79	6.06	
    Balears (Illes)	18.11	5.08	
    Canarias	16.53	3.73	
    Cantabria	17.76	4.86	
    Castilla y León	17.33	3.63	
    Castilla-La Mancha	18.14	5.64	
    Cataluña	17.83	4.93	
    Comunitat Valenciana	18.34	5.23	
    Extremadura	16.64	3.55	
    Galicia	18.09	4.03	
    Madrid (Comunidad de)	18.01	4.88	
    Murcia (Región de)	18.19	6.25	
    Navarra (Comunidad Foral de)	17.18	3.41	
    País Vasco	17.95	5.18	
    Rioja (La)	17.87	3.65	
    Ceuta and Melilla	19.56	5.67	
Notes:
1) Population aged 16 years old and over that does not currently smoke but that has smoked  before
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