Smoking prevalence in England is below 20% for the first time in 80 years

We would like to expand on the “who smokes” section of Zwar and Mendelsohn’s timely clinical review of smoking cessation by sharing the latest findings of a large national surveillance study, which has been tracking smoking prevalence in England since 2006.1 2 Each month a new sample of about 1800 people aged ≥16 years is selected by random location sampling to complete a computer assisted household survey with a trained interviewer. Prevalence data are weighted to …