Sixty seconds on . . . smoking trends

Good news, I presume?Not quite. While overall smoking rates declined between 2013 and 2023, there appears to have been a rise in the proportion of middle class women under the age of 45 who smoke in England. The findings come from the Smoking Toolkit study in which a different representative sample of 1700 adults in England are interviewed each month.1There goes that theory up in smokeIndeed. The study, funded by Cancer Research UK and published in BMC Medicine, found that the proportion of women aged 18 to 45 from higher socioeconomic backgrounds who smoke rose from 12% (95% confidence interval 10.2% to 13.5%) to 15% (95% CI 13.4% to 16.6%) over the decade. In contrast, there was a drop in the proportion of less advantaged women of the same age who smoked, from 29% (95% CI 26.3% to 31.2%) to 22% (95% CI 19.6% to 25.5%). Smoking rates among men…
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