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Smoking cessation
Smoking prevalence in England is below 20% for the first time in 80 years
BMJ 2014; 348 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g1378 (Published 11 February 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;348:g1378- Jamie Brown, senior research fellow1,
- Robert West, professor of health psychology1
- 1University College London, London WC1E 7HB, UK
- jamie.brown{at}ucl.ac.uk
We would like to expand on the “who smokes” section of Zwar and Mendelsohn’s timely clinical review of smoking cessation by sharing the latest findings of a large national surveillance study, which has been tracking smoking prevalence in England since 2006.1 2 Each month a new sample of about 1800 people aged ≥16 years is selected by random location sampling to complete a computer assisted household survey with a trained interviewer. Prevalence data are weighted to …
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