Cigarette smokers Health and wellbeing

This indicator shows the percentage of adults (18+) who state they currently smoke cigarettes (excluding e-cigarettes), in the United Kingdom, for 2012 to 2023.

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Cigarette smokers

Percentage of people aged 18 and over who state they currently smoke cigarettes (excluding e-cigarettes), 2023

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Cigarette smokers

Percentage of people aged 18 and over who state they currently smoke cigarettes (excluding e-cigarettes), 2012 to 2023

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Cigarette smokers

Percentage of people aged 18 and over who state they currently smoke cigarettes (excluding e-cigarettes), 2023

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Cigarette smokers

Percentage of people aged 18 and over who state they currently smoke cigarettes (excluding e-cigarettes), 2012 to 2023

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To improve the comparability of smoking prevalence estimates for 2020 and subsequent years, the weighting methodology has been improved to remove the effect of the change in method of data collection between 2019 and 2020. For more information please refer to the Adult smoking habits in the UK methodology page.

Northern Ireland local authority smoking prevalence estimates are not available before 2015.

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Cigarette smokers is one of 77 local indicators on the Explore local statistics service. See the full list of local indicators.