Tobacco
News
- Smoking Costing NHS £2.7 billion a Year
Tue 7th October 2008
- White Paper sets out new moves on smoking, obesity and sexual health
Tue 16th November 2004
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Gillian Bryant
Introduction
Around 10 million adults smoke cigarettes in Great Britain: this is about a quarter of the population.
However these numbers are higher in the North East with around 25 per cent of adults smoking regularly - the highest rate in England and more women than men now smoke in our region. Smoking is highest among 20-24 year olds. Almost as many young people still start smoking today but more established smokers are quitting. Smoking is now concentrated in lower socioeconomic groups with rates in routine and manual worker groups nearly double those of managerial and professional groups.
Highlight figures
21 per cent of women and 27 per cent of men are now ex-smokers.
70 per cent of current smokers would like to quit altogether.
The North East has the best performing NHS Stop Smoking Services in the country and in 2006/7 over 50,000 local smokers used these services with nearly half quitting smoking as a result.
Publications
- Occasional Paper No. 30: The Prevalence of Smoking in the North East
- Occasional Paper No. 26 - A Monitoring Framework for Regional Tobacco Control in the North East
- Occasional Paper 23: The prevalence of smoking in the North East
- Occasional Paper No 20 - Are NHS Stop Smoking Services Reducing Health Inequalities in the North East of England?
- Occasional Paper 08 - Premature Mortality from Smoking in the North East of England
