Smoking: Death
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people died from smoking in England in each year since 2021.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
The latest estimates for smoking-attributable mortality in England are for the period 2017 to 2019. The Smoking Profile, produced by the Department, reports 191,903 smoking-attributable deaths of people aged 35 years old and over in the period 2017 to 2019 in England, which is just under 64,000 deaths each year. Further information on the Smoking Profile is available at the following link:
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