About this data

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS), Smoking habits in the UK and its constituent countries, 2025 (Annual Population Survey), Table 4b

• Each local estimate is based on a few hundred interviews a year, so ONS averages five years of data to make it more reliable. Even so, ONS rates 13 areas' estimates for 2021 to 2025 as unreliable, mostly small authorities, and differences of a few percentage points between areas may be due to chance.
• From the Annual Population Survey, which asks around 140,000 adults a year whether they smoke cigarettes, the official measure of how many adults smoke. In 2020, the survey moved to telephone interviews only, which may have affected estimates.

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