Smoking In Young People
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Smoking in Young People in England in 2008:
Selected statistics from the Information Centre’s annual report
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Fewer are Smoking• Increasing numbers of young people say they
have never smoked– At the start of the decade 55% said they had never
smoked, that had risen to 68% last year– Boys (69%) are more likely never to have smoked than
girls (67%)• Fewer young people are regular smokers– At the start of the decade 10% were smoking at least
once a week, this had fallen to 6% in 2008– Girls (8%) are more likely to be regular smokers than
boys (5%)
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Never Smoked by Year and Sex
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Regular Smokers by Year and Sex
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The proportion of non-smokers falls with age
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Family Attitudes
• Parents and carers are perceived by young people to be actively hostile to smoking.
• As young people grow up they increasingly expect their parents to reason with them.
• Living with smokers makes it less likely young people perceive their families would disapprove of them smoking.
• Regular smokers (36%) were less likely to be secret smokers than those that smoke occasionally (65%).
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Family attitudes to smoking by year
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Family attitude to smoking by age
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Family attitude towards smoking, by number of smokers pupil lives with
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Pupils are finding it increasingly difficult to buy cigarettes from shops
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Pupils are increasingly being refused cigarettes by shops
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Attitudes
• Young people decreasingly see smoking as acceptable
• Regular smokers are more likely to over-estimate rates of smoking amongst their peers.
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Pupils are increasingly intolerant of smoking
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All at it?
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Information about smoking
• Recall of lessons about smoking has remained stable in recent years.
• Parents (72%) and teachers (69%) are seen as the most important sources of helpful information about smoking.
• TV is seen as an important source of information about smoking by 75%.– Girls (64%) are more likely than boys to see
newspapers and magazines as important than boys (51%)
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Remembered lessons on smoking
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Sources of helpfulinformation about smoking, by sex
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Sources of helpfulinformation about smoking, by sex
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Risk factors
• Young people who have used drugs in the last year are 10 times as likely to be regular smokers
• Young people living with a smoker in the household were twice as likely to be regular smokers themselves, and this increases where there are additional smokers in the household
• Young people who have been excluded or who have truanted are more that twice as likely to be regular smokers.
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Estimated odds ratios for regular smoking, by individual and school-level measures
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• Smoking drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2008 can be downloaded from the Information Centre’s website at:www.ic.nhs.uk