Tobacco and health in Wales (2012)
Key Messages
The smoking-attributable indicators included in the ‘Tobacco and Health in Wales’ publication have been updated.
Published by the Public Health Wales Observatory and Welsh Government, Tobacco and health in Wales is a comprehensive summary of statistics on tobacco use and its impact on health and health services in Wales. It updates Smoking in Wales: current facts which was published in 2007 by the Welsh Government and Wales Centre for Health.
The report covers the following topics:
- Prevalence of smoking in adults, young people and pregnant women, including trends over time
- Exposure to second hand smoke
- Prevention and cessation*
- Deaths and hospital admissions attributable to smoking
- Contribution of smoking to overall inequalities in mortality rates
- Affordability
- Examples of successful tobacco control policies
Explore Data Further
A suite of products are available:
Tobacco and health in Wales report ** (.pdf)
Summary of data in Powerpoint format (.ppt)
Initial findings from Tobacco and health in Wales to mark No Smoking Day 2012 (.pdf)
* Data on enhanced smoking cessation services provided by community pharmacies should be treated with caution. In contrast to what is recorded on the relatively new All Wales Pharmacy Database, all 30 pharmacies in Cwm Taf who provided enhanced services in 2011 provided both levels 2 and 3 (page 29, table 2). Similar discrepancies may occur in other areas.
** The report was updated on 9th July 2012 to correct an error in figure 17 (page 19), where the ‘Boys’ and ‘Girls’ labels had been placed on the wrong lines within the chart.
The Tobacco and health in Wales report and the initial findings publication are also available to download in a high resolution format:
Tobacco and health in Wales report** - high resolution (.pdf)
Initial findings publication - high resolution (.pdf)
Access The Data
Data are presented for Wales, health board and local authority areas. It is recommended that these spreadsheets are used in conjunction with the Tobacco and health in Wales report (.pdf). The supporting technical guide (.pdf) provides details of methods and caveats.
Smoking prevalence trend data
Percentage of adults who reported smoking daily or occasionally, 2003/04-2010 (.xls).
Data available at the health board, local authority and Wales levels. These data are included to supplement section 2 of Tobacco and health in Wales.
Mortality and hospital admissions data by health board and local authority
Data available at the health board, local authority and Wales levels. These data are included to supplement section 5.2 of Tobacco and health in Wales.
Mortality and hospital admissions data by fifth of deprivation
Data available at the Wales and UK levels. These data are included to supplement section 5.2 of Tobacco and health in Wales.
Smoking-attributable mortality and hospital admissions by disease and deprivation fifth
Data available at the health board and Wales levels. These data are included to supplement sections 5.2.1 and 5.2.4 of Tobacco and health in Wales.
Acknowledgements
Project team (analysis and writing)
Hugo Cosh, Gareth Davies, Ioan Francis, Elinor Griffiths, Leon May, Cath Roberts, Claire Tiffany, Margaret Webber
Project board
Mererid Bowley, Nathan Lester, Cindy Marsh, Cath Roberts, Jane Wilkinson
Thanks to the following people for their contribution to this report:
Rose Allgeier, Joanna Arthur, Susan Belfourd, Lloyd Evans, Deirdre Hickey, Ciarán Humphreys, Louise Megrath, Isabel Puscas, Salah Sharif (NHS Information Centre)
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