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Sixty seconds on . . . smoking trends
BMJ 2024; 385 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q915 (Published 19 April 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;385:q915
- Jacqui Wise
- Kent
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.1
There goes that theory up in smoke
Indeed. The study, funded by Cancer Research UK and published in BMC Medicine, found that the proportion of women aged 18 to 45 …
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