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Smoking

Answer

The information requested is not available in the exact format requested. Data for Stroud constituency are not collected. Data for England, Gloucestershire Primary Care Trust (PCT) and South Gloucestershire PCT are available.Information on the prevalence of smoking among adults aged 16 and over by gender and age group in England is available from the General Household Survey 2006, Table 1.1, page 15. This publication has already been placed in the Library.Estimated prevalence of smokers among adults aged 16 and over, along with associated confidence intervals for Gloucestershire PCT and South Gloucestershire PCT are available from Healthy Lifestyle Behaviours: Model Based Estimates, 2003-2005. 2006 Health Hierarchy. This publication has been placed in the Library.Information on the number of people who successfully quit smoking at the four week follow up (based on self report) in South Gloucestershire PCT, Gloucestershire PCT and England in the last year 2007-08 are available from the Statistics on NHS Stop Smoking Services: England, April 2007 to March 2008, Table 2.4, page 11 at national level and Table 3.5, pages 28-30 at PCT level. This publication has already been placed in the Library.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

486 c1204-5W; 247936

Session

2008-09

Related items

Deposited Paper DEP2009-0152
Monday, 19 January 2009
Deposited papers
House of Commons

Subjects

Smoking

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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