Smoking profile: statistical commentary, October 2026
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 | OHID, UK

Adult smoking habits in the UK: 2025
Around 4.9 million people aged 18 years and over (9.8% of the population) smoked cigarettes in the UK in 2025. This is a decrease from 2024 (10.6%), which follows a long-term downward trend. The proportion of current smokers has fallen by 10.4 percentage points since this data time series began in 2011 (20.2%), based on our estimates from the Annual Population Survey (APS) | ONS, UK

Integrating tobacco harm reduction into drug treatment and harm reduction services
This publication offers some ideas for drug treatment and harm reduction services keen to help people reduce smoking and tobacco-related harm | GSTHR, UK [See also item below]

Smoking among people facing problems with drug use
Over the last two decades, the prevalence of smoking among general adult populations has been declining, particularly in wealthier nations. But across both high-income countries (HIC) and low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), smoking has a significant and often disproportionate impact on marginalised communities. In this Briefing Paper, we consider how smoking affects one such group, people who are facing problems with their drug use | GSTHR, UK

Health Survey for England, 2015 (published December 2016)
Latest statistics on adult and child smoking, e-cig use, alcohol use and obesity | NHS Digital, UK

Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 2016
Cigarette smoking among high school students dropped to the lowest levels since the National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) began in 1991, but the use of e-cigarettes among students poses new challenges according to the 2015 survey results released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | Center for Disease Control, USA

Growing up unequal: gender and socioeconomic differences in young people’s health and well-being, 2016 (PDF)
Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), a WHO collaborative cross-national study, has provided information about the health, well-being, social environment and health behaviour of 11-, 13- and 15-year-old boys and girls for over 30 years. This latest international report from the study presents findings from the 2013/2014 survey, which collected data from almost 220 000 young people in 42 countries in Europe and North America | WHO, Switzerland

State of tobacco control, 2016
The American Lung Association’s “State of Tobacco Control 2016” sounds the alarm about the troubling increase of youth tobacco use in our nation. While significant progress has been made in reducing youth cigarette smoking—an almost 42 percent decline in high school smoking rates since 2011—youth use of other tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and hookah, is skyrocketing | American Lung Association, USA