Smoking

These annual bulletins present a range of information on smoking from a variety of sources. They present a broad picture of health issues relating to smoking in England and cover topics such as smoking prevalence, habits, behaviours, and attitudes among adults and school children.Information is also presented on smoking-related costs to the NHS including prescriptions and the NHS Stop Smoking Services, and also costs to the individual from household expenditure on tobacco. The effect of smoking on health is explored in the context of smoking-related hospital admissions and deaths.

The NHS Information Centre has published these bulletins from 2006. Selected archive copies of earlier publications are available on the Department of Health website.

18 August 2010 Note

As a result of detailed validations carried out during production of the Statistics on Smoking: England, 2010 report, a refinement was to made to the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) diagnosis code used to identify a hip fracture.

This issue concerns information presented on the number of hospital admissions attributable to smoking. The 2010 report presents these figures for 2008/09 and uses the refined methodology; the effect of the refinement is that the number of hospital admissions attributable to a hip fracture in 2008/09 is 8.6 per cent lower than it would have been had the refinement not been made; the effect on the total number of hospital admissions attributable to smoking in 2008/09 is negligible.

Further information on the effect of this refinement can be found in the footnotes of tables 4.3 - 4.5 of the 2010 report. This improvement will be carried forward into future editions of the report but has not been made to editions of the report before 2010.