Dataset(s): Smoking habits in the UK and its constituent countries

Annual data and annual historic data on the proportion of adults who currently smoke, the proportion of ex-smokers and the proportion of those who have never smoked, by sex and age.

Contact:
Population Health Monitoring Group

Release date:
4 November 2025

Next release:
To be announced

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  1. For certain statistics initial estimates are released with the expectation that these may be revised and updated as further data becomes available.
  2. Revisions may also be made when methods or systems are changed.

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Latest version

xlsx (2.1 MB)

Previous versions

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xlsx (2.1 MB)
Correction See correction
We have corrected errors in the Smoking habits in the UK and its constituent countries dataset in Table 4a and Table 4b. The previous version contained upper confidence limits (UCL) in Table 4a that were more than 100 for 13 Local Authorities, in the data from 2020 to 2024. In Table 4b, a negative lower confidence limit (LCL) for 2019 to 2023 for the City of London has been corrected. This should have been 0.
23 March 2026 15:07