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Description: Limited research has been conducted to examine how (1) adult daily smoking varies across cultures and (2) demographic variation in daily smoking differs across those cultures. This study is an in-depth, cross-national exploration of adult daily cigarette smoking across cultures, and its variations across key demographic groups. Using a diverse and international dataset of approximately 200,000 individuals from 22 countries, we will examine relationships between the daily smoking rate and key demographics, including: age, gender, marital status, employment status, religious service attendance, education, and immigration status. Our descriptive results will also present the ordered means of the rate across countries. We will be mindful of potential interpretation challenges due to varying cultural contexts and response scales used. Our work will illuminate the distributions and descriptive statistics of the rate of adult daily cigarette smoking across these demographic features, offer insight into country-specific variations in daily cigarette smoking, and establish a valuable foundation for future investigations into sociocultural factors that might affect the health-risk behavior.