Smoking habits: by gender and socio-economic group, 1998-99: Social Trends 31 More cancer deaths in the United Kingdom can be attributed to smoking tobacco than to any other single risk factor. The Health Education Authority estimated that smoking caused 120 thousand deaths in 1995. The prevalence of smoking varies by social class....
Prevalence of cigarette smoking among men: Social Focus on Men Smoking causes the deaths of around 80 thousand men each year in the United Kingdom, through diseases such as lung cancer, chronic obstructive lung disease and ischaemic heart disease. Historically, men have been more likely to smoke than women. This has ...
Product Results for Attitudes to smoking
Results from the General LiFestyle Survey (GLF) The General LiFestyle Survey (GLF), formerly known as the General Household Survey (GHS), is a multi-purpose continuous survey carried out by the ONS collecting information on a range of topics from people living in private households in Great Britain. Th...
Social Trends Pocketbook 2000 Edition Presents an authoritative picture of UK society today in a handy, accessible and compact booklet. As the name suggests, it is a mini version of the current Social Trends volume, the annual report which gives a comprehensive picture of social change in th...
Smoking-related behaviour and attitudes Presents results from questions about smoking which were included on the ONS Omnibus survey at the request of the Health and Social Care Informtation Centre. In the survey, questions about smoking behaviour and habits, giving up and stopping smoking, perc...
Focus on Health Describes the health of people living in the UK across five key dimensions: health status, risk factors, ill-health, preventive, curative and long-term care services and mortality. Emphasis is placed on trends over time.
Over the last 25 years, improve...
Health of Adult Britain 1841-1994 Decennial Supplement, Volume 2 Contents include trends in diseases of particular organ systems, and mortality/morbidity in selected population groups.
Contents include: communicable diseases; sexually transmitted diseases including HIV/AIDS; cancers; cardiovascular disease; neurolog...
Continuous Household Survey - Northern Ireland The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency carries out a survey on characteristics of households. Data are available by household size, tenure, availability of consumer durables, health, income, smoking, drinking and contraception.
Data cover ...
General Household Survey - GB The Office for National Statistics carries out the General Household Survey (GHS), a multi-purpose sample survey on approximately 9,000 households and about 16,000 adults aged 16 and over. Data are collected on five core topics, namely education, employme...
British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) Series National Centre for Social Research, an independent non-profit research institute, carries out a series of annual surveys charting continuity and change in British social, economic, political and moral values in relation to other changes in society.
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Analysis Results for Attitudes to smoking
Smoking and Misuse of Alcohol The Department of Health compiles data on smoking and misuse of alcohol from a variety of sources. Occasional publications on trends are also prepared.
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