This report presents newly published information on smoking including: Smoking-related hospital admissions from NHS Digital's Hospital Episode Statistics (HES). Smoking-related deaths from Office for National Statistics (ONS) mortality statistics. Prescription items used to help people stop smoking from prescribing data held by NHS Prescription Services. Affordability of tobacco and expenditure on tobacco using ONS economic data. Two new years of data have been provided for hospital admissions (2018/19 and 2019/20) and deaths (2018 and 2019) and one year of data for prescribing (2018/19) and affordability and expenditure (2019). The report also provides links to information on smoking by adults and children drawn together from a variety of sources. Key facts cover the latest year of data available: Hospital admissions: 2019/20 Deaths: 2019 Prescriptions: 2019/20

This statistic displays the prevalence of cigarette smoking among adults in the United Kingdom from 1974 to 2019, by gender. The prevalence of smoking among men and women has substantially declined since 1974. In 2019, **** percent of men and **** percent of women smoked cigarettes, which is ********* the rate reported in 1974.

This report presents statistics on mother’s smoking status at time of delivery, at national and Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) level. This release includes the quarter 4 2019-20 information alongside the finalised data for 2019-20 financial year.

As of 2019, the share of the UK population that currently smoked and identified as heterosexual/straight was 13.8 percent. Those that had identified as gay or lesbian had a larger share of the population that currently smoked, at approximately 19.5 percent.

Annual data on the proportion of adults in Great Britain who smoke cigarettes, cigarette consumption, the proportion who have never smoked cigarettes and the proportion of smokers who have quit by sex and age over time.

The local tobacco control profiles data update for November 2020 has been published by Public Health England (PHE).

These profiles have been designed to help local government and health services to assess the effect of tobacco use on their local populations. The data are presented in an interactive tool that allows users to view them in a user-friendly format.

This update contains:

• four new indicators on smoking prevalence in adults (18+) admitted to treatment for substance misuse (NDTMS)
• new data for smoking status at time of delivery for 2019 to 2020
• new data on deaths from smoking related diseases for the period 2017 to 2019

The short statistical summary slideset can now be found in the local tobacco control profiles tool in the https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/tobacco-control/supporting-information/presentations" class="govuk-link">our reports and presentations section of the ‘further information’ page.

See the attached ‘data to be included’ document for full details of what’s in this update.

View previous local tobacco control profiles updates.

This annual report presents results from the monitoring of the NHS Stop Smoking Services in England during the period April 2019 to March 2020. NHS Stop Smoking Services offer support to help people quit smoking. This can include intensive support through group therapy or one-to-one support. The support is designed to be widely accessible within the local community and is provided by trained personnel, such as specialist smoking cessation advisors and trained nurses and pharmacists. This report includes information on the number of people setting a quit date and the number who successfully quit at the 4 week follow-up. It also presents in depth analyses of the key measures of the service including pregnant women, breakdowns by ethnic group and type of pharmacotherapy received. The results are provided at national, regional and local authority levels. Due to the coronavirus illness (Covid-19) there have been some changes in terms of our regular statistical productions. The collection of the Stop Smoking Services dataset and production of this publication was paused in spring and summer 2020 to support the handling of pandemic, therefore is being published later than in previous collection years. Please note this publication was originally scheduled for release on 29th October 2020 and was delayed for operational reasons. Error notification: Quarter 4 2019/20 data submitted by the provider for Barking and Dagenham Council was actually data for Havering council. The local authority did not inform NHS Digital about this error until June 2021, which was seven months after the 2019/20 report had been published. Consequently, this was too late to change the publication, so data for Barking and Dagenham Council is incorrect for the Quarter 4 2019/20 report.

This statistic displays the national smoking rates of adults in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2019, by country. The largest proportion of smokers was in Scotland, with **** percent of adults smokers based in this country.

In England in 2022, 21 percent of men and 15 percent of women aged between 25 and 34 years were current smokers, this is the highest share of male and female smokers across the age groups. Across all age groups men either had a higher or equal share of smokers compared to females. Situation north of the border In Scotland, the highest share of regular smokers is found in the age group between 45 to 64 years at 13 percent, followed by those aged between 16 and 44 years at 12 percent. In 2020, 11 percent of men and eight percent of women overall in Scotland were current smokers. Dangers of smoking  Over 1.9 million admissions to NHS hospitals in England in the financial year 2019/20 were caused by smoking. The number of admissions as a result of smoking has been creeping upwards since 2000. Consequently, the number of admissions due to cancers caused by smoking in England has increased since the year 2000, reaching almost 381 thousand in 2019/20. 

As of 2019, England was the country in the UK with the lowest share of current smokers in the adult population. However, the population of Northern Ireland were the least likely to have ever smoked in their lives, with **** percent saying they had never smoked.

Annual data on the proportion of adults in Great Britain who use e-cigarettes, by different characteristics such as age, sex and cigarette smoking status.

Objectives: This study aimed to estimate the long-term trends of deaths attributable smoking in China, Japan, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US).Methods: Using 2000–2019 death data from Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2019, we estimated age-period-cohort effects on smoking attributable mortality, and decomposed of differences in smoking-attributable deaths in 1990 and 2019 into demographic factors.Results: From 1990 to 2019, smoking-attributable deaths increased in China, which was due to population growth and demographic aging. From 1990 to 2019, both age-standardized smoking attributable mortality rates trended downward across countries. Among four countries, age rate ratios (RRs) for smoking-attributable mortality increased with age, while period and cohort RRs decreased with year.Conclusion: The age-standardized mortality rates, period effects and cohort effects of smoking attributable mortality in China, Japan, UK, and US have been declining in both sexes from 1990 to 2019, which suggests that smoke-free policies, help to quit tobacco use, improved health education, more accessible healthcare service, and increased taxes have been effective. Additionally, increased smoking attributable deaths in elderly should got more attention.

Smoking at initial assessment: More than 90% of records had valid data for the smoking status at initial assessment data item, across all health boards, in all years. However, statistics on smoking at initial assessment and birth are limited by the way in which the data is collected. If CO monitoring is not available, data reliability is dependent on the mother self-reporting accurate information. CO monitoring has largely been suspended since the COVID-19 pandemic began, so data for 2020 and 2021 is mainly self-reported. E-Cigarette use should not be recorded in this data item and would not be detected by a CO monitor; however, in practice some mothers may self-report as a smoker if they use e-cigarettes and be incorrectly recorded as a smoker. Likewise, some mothers who do smoke may self-report as a non-smoker and be incorrectly recorded as a non-smoker. Smoking at birth: In 2021, 82% of records had valid data recorded at the Wales level. This was largely due to Hywel Dda health board not supplying any smoking at birth data, while there was only 68% complete data for Cwm Taf Morgannwg. There were also low levels of completeness in 2020 for Hywel Dda (30%), Cwm Taf Morgannwg (70%) and Powys (76%). However, in all years prior to 2020, more than 90% of records had valid data for smoking status at birth, across nearly all health boards. Full details of every data item available on both the Maternity Indicators dataset and National Community Child Health Database are available through the NWIS Data Dictionary: http://www.datadictionary.wales.nhs.uk/#!WordDocuments/datasetstructure20.htm From 1st April 2019 health service provision for residents of Bridgend local authority moved from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg to Cwm Taf. For more information see the joint statement from Cwm Taf and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Boards (see weblinks). The health board names have changed with Cwm Taf University Health Board becoming Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board becoming Swansea Bay University Health Board. Data for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and Cwm Taf are available for previous years in this table by selecting the tick boxes in the Area drop-down box.

This statistic displays the proportion of children who have ever smoked cigarettes in England in 2019, by gender and age. In this year, *** percent of boys and **** percent of girls aged between 13 and 15 years old have smoked cigarettes.

In 2019, *** percent of men in England and **** percent of women in England were current e-cigarette users. In total, approximately **** fifths of the adult population of England had never before vaped.

Statistics illustrates consumption, production, prices, and trade of Smoking pipes (including pipe bowls) and cigar or cigarette holders and parts thereof in European Union (incl. the UK) from Jan 2019 to Jun 2025.