Discussion: We bet about the percentage of smoking addicts in the smoking population. We would appreciate it if you could elaborate on your answer.

You ask a question that does not have an exact numerical answer. There are pretty good statistics regarding the proportion of smokers (men and women) according to age groups, education, and ethnicity. You are asking a more methodological question that has no answer in a simple Google search.

I estimate that the rate of smoking people with an addiction out of the total number of smokers is around 80% (including women). The explanation for the high rate is that smoking causes proven health damage, often also noticeable. Therefore, only a reward mechanism, as exists in all addictions, can bypass the rationale of stopping smoking. The number 80% is not accidental; it originates from the Italian mathematician Pareto, who discovered that many phenomena are distributed in ratios quite close to 80:20.