Sixty seconds on . . . smoking trends
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 Indeed. The study, funded by Cancer Research UK and published in BMC Medicine , found that the proportion of women aged 18 to 45 …