Subtopic: Smoking Amongst Children

Data on smoking taken from the 2011 General Lifestyle Survey including questions on cigarette consumption, type of cigarette smoked, how old respondents were when they started smoking, and dependence on cigarettes.

This article is published as part of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Measuring National Well-being Programme and discusses the well-being of children. The Programme aims to produce accepted and trusted measures of the well-being of the nation - how the UK as a whole is doing. The Programme is also publishing more in depth analyses.

PDF download of Smoking and drinking among adults, 2009 Report, part of the General Lifestyle Survey

The last in a series of three surveys for the Health Education Authority looking at the attitudes and beliefs about smoking of children aged 11-15.