Smoking and Tobacco
Lead analyst: Hannah Walford
The London Health Observatory are the national lead PHO for smoking and tobacco use. The LHO smoking web page contains useful information, resources and links.
The National Library for Public Health brings together information and evidence around tobacco, including best practice in smoking cessation services, commissioning, tobacco control, campaigns and interventions, and policy.
Smoking prevalence, morbidity and mortality
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| | The East of England Lifestyle Survey gives PCT estimates of smoking prevalence and quit attempts. The results of the survey can also be used to compare the 20% most deprived MSOAs within a PCT to the rest of the PCT. |
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| | The Information Centre publishes regular statistical collections on smoking behaviour, harm and costs. For the latest collections click here. | |
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| | Synthetic estimates of smoking prevalence are included in the model-based estimates of healthy lifestyle behaviours, published through ONS Neighbourhood Statistics. |
| | The National Centre for Health Outcomes Development (NCHOD) publishes various measures of tobacco use and its health effects. The following indicators from the NCHOD Compendium are available at national, regional and in some cases LA and/or PCT level. |
| | Smoking Attributable Mortality data are included in the Health Inequalities Profiles published by erpho. |
Young people
NHS Stop Smoking Services
Erpho Publications
Tobacco Policy
National tobacco policy is driven by the Choosing Health White Paper , published in 2004.
NHS East of England has pledged to reduce the number of smokers in the region by 140,000 as part of the Improving Lives; Saving Lives strategy.
NICE guidance
The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have published several pieces of public health guidance related to smoking cessation and tobacco control.
From 1st of July 2007 virtually all enclosed public places and workplaces in England will become smokefree. A smokefree England will ensure a healthier environment, so everyone can socialise, relax, travel, shop and work free from secondhand smoke.
This website provides you with information about the new legislation and lets you know how you can play an important part in creating a smokefree England.
Local actions on tobacco are carried out by alliances. An alliance is a collaboration of agencies that pursue a set of agreed goals for local delivery of tobacco control. Typical membership of an alliance can include representatives from health, local authorities and voluntary organisations.
The main roles for Alliances include:
- Strengthening and enhancing local capacity for action on tobacco control
- Supporting the implementation of “Smoking Kills” – the tobacco White Paper (1998)
- Influencing policy change at a local level
There are six alliances in the East of England. To find out about the work of your local alliance and how to contact them, click on the county that best suits you.
APHO has endorsed the 2008 ASH publication Beyond Smoking Kills: Protecting Children, Reducing Inequalities
The Smoking Toolkit Study is a monthly series of national household surveys with smokers and recent ex-smokers, providing evidence on smoking and smoking cessation.
This website provides, for each of 40 developed countries (and 5 groupings of countries, such as the European Union), estimates of the number of deaths caused by smoking. Where possible, it also describes the trends in the numbers of deaths caused by smoking