... however, this gap has been closing in recent years due to decreasing numbers of men smoking and increasing numbers of women smoking in certain countries. In addition, smoking-associated deaths among ... with an infection ratio of 2:1. In women the predominant routes of transmission are heterosexual contact and injection drug use (ECDC 2008a). In terms of other sexually transmitted infectious ... from 52.1 in Latvia to 69.2 in Malta, with women in Slovakia, Finland, and Estonia expected to have fewer than 55 HLYs and women in Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Iceland, Italy, Sweden, and the UK...