Smoking prevalence by constituency

ASH Scotland has created a Tobacco Profile for all Scottish Parliamentary constituencies. They provide information on smoking prevalence for adults and children at local authority level; smoking-related adult deaths, rates of tobacco related diseases, and NHS quit smoking rates at health board level; and local tobacco control alliances.

• Central Scotland
• Glasgow
• Highlands and Islands
• Lothian
• Mid Scotland & Fife
• North East Scotland
• South of Scotland
• West of Scotland

The data highlights that tobacco still needs to be tackled in Scotland if we are to reduce the impact of smoking on our public health. Smoking remains Scotland’s biggest preventable killer and ASH Scotland believes there is a need for a new comprehensive and robust tobacco control plan for Scotland which has a focus on reducing the harm caused by smoking and second-hand smoke especially in those areas where smoking rates remain high. You can find out more about the recommendations for such a strategy at Beyond Smoke-free.

NB: The Scottish Household Survey Annual Report (released November 2011) presents reliable and up-to-date information on the composition, characteristics and behaviour of Scottish households at a national level including adult smoking prevalence.  The SHS 2009/2010 local authority-level tables have being developed, providing comparable information at a sub-national level.

The tobacco profiles contain the following information:

• Adult (16+) smoking prevalence 2007/08 by local authority
  Source: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002/LATablesAnnual2007-2008

• Child (15yr old) 2006 smoking prevalence by local authority
  Source:http://www.drugmisuse.isdscotland.org/publications/abstracts/salsusdocs_local2006.htm

• Deaths attributable to smoking 2000 - 2004 by health board (number and % of deaths).  Scotland figure 13,321 deaths (24%) in 2008.
  Source: http://www.scotpho.org.uk/home/Publications/scotphoreports/pub_tobaccoatlas.asp

• Smoking in pregnancy at time of booking 2009 by health board
  Source: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/2911.html

• NHS Quit rates 2010 (% self-reported at one month %)
  Source: http://www.scotpho.org.uk/localuserpagenew.asp?ae_bae=T&page=2139

• Incidence of cancer of the trachea, bronchus and lung: (age-standardised incidence rate per 100,000 person-years at risk) 2008 by health board
  ICD-10 C33-C34 (age-standardised incidence rate per 100,000 person-years at risk (European standard population)) 2008 by health board.
  Source: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/1451.html)

• Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease: (standardised incidence rate per 100,000 population) 2010 by health board
  
  Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease: ICD10 I20 - I25 (standardised incidence rate per 100,000 population (European standard population)) 2010 by health board.
  Source: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5779.html

• Incidence of Cerebrovascular Disease: (standardised incidence rate per 100,000 population) 2010 by health board
  
  Incidence of Cerebrovascular Disease: ICD10  I60 - I69, G45 (standardised incidence rate per 100,000 population (European standard population)) 2010 (provisional) by health board.
  Source: http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/5784.html)

• Local Tobacco Control Alliance
  A Tobacco Control Alliance is a coming together of all of those organisations that have an interest in reducing tobacco use. Alliances provide an opportunity to increase the effectiveness of smoking prevention and cessation activities by co-ordinating the work of those organisations thereby gaining maximum impact and they are located across Scotland. Find out more on the Local Alliance webpage.

For other statistical information visit smoking statistics or for a downloadable overview (updated every six months) see ASH Scotland Smoking statistics factsheet (pdf, 527kb)