Smoking profile: July 2026 update
An overview of the extent of smoking, smoking-attributable harm and the measures being taken to reduce that harm at a local level in England.
Applies to England
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The smoking profile has been designed to help local government and health services assess the effect of smoking on their local populations. The data is presented in an interactive tool that allows users to view it in a user-friendly format.
New data has been added to the smoking profile for indicators of:
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smoking-attributable mortality for the period 2022 to 2024
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smoking-attributable hospital admissions for the financial year ending March 2023
Until this release, these indicators had not been updated since 2019. This update is accompanied by Developing smoking-attributable fractions (SAFs) for COVID-19, which describes the methods used to establish smoking-attributable risk from COVID-19 and to update these indicators.
One new indicator has been added:
- proportion of local smoking population referred to stop smoking services for the financial year ending March 2025
Indicators of smoking prevalence have not been updated in this release, but inequality breakdowns have been added for regional estimates, providing data by age, ethnicity, country of birth and religion within the English regions.
Regional estimates have also been added for indicators of smoking prevalence at age 15.
Updated indicators are available at local authority level, as well as for England and the English regions.