Smoking

Data and reports

The Kent Tobacco Control Needs Assessment identifies the profile of smokers in the Kent community alongside current stop smoking service provision and attitudes towards quitting smoking. National policy and guidance suggests local authorities target priority groups to tackling smoking and considers the emerging issue of young people vaping. This needs assessment explores the issues of smoking, vaping and illicit tobacco in our communities and provides recommendations on a partnership approach to achieving a smokefree Kent.

We have also produced the following:

A tobacco dependency needs assessment (PDF, 2.0 MB) for Kent in 2019
An equity analysis of stop smoking services within Kent (PDF, 1.6 MB) in 2016.
Analysis of the 2015 Stoptober Smokefree Initiative in Kent (PDF, 1.4 MB).
Analysis of the potential return on investment of smoking cessation activity in hospital (PDF, 383.7 KB).
A comparison of the sources of local smoking prevalence estimates (PDF, 503.8 KB)
An analysis of the overlap between obesity, alcohol and smoking (PDF, 636.3 KB).
Analysis of the One You initiative in Kent (PDF, 2.6 MB).

Additional information can be found in our Health and Social Care Maps self-serve tool. We are constantly developing this resource in response to your feedback.

Kent County Council Public Health are members of the South East Tobacco Control Network who have recently published a position statement on electronic cigarettes for 2021.

External resources

The South-East Association of Directors of Public Health has produced advice and guidance for managing vapes in schools and educational settings (PDF, 9.4 MB). This has been developed in response to the increasing reports of young people vaping in schools, colleges, and youth settings.

The guidance document is primarily for: All Headteachers, school staff, safeguarding leads and governing bodies in maintained schools, academies, free schools, independent schools, sixth form colleges, Pupil Referral Units (PRUs) and other forms of alternative education provision. It may also be useful for Local authorities, parents/carers, school nurses and other health professionals who have an input on substance use disorders. The police, trading standards teams and local agencies working with individual schools to prevent substance use disorders amongst pupils.

The PDF file is not fully accessibility compliant due to annotations not being tagged. If you require assistance with accessing all the information from the document, please contact us.

A number of organisations produce statistics relating to smoking and its impact on health, both at national and local level.

NHS Digital publish a statistical report on smoking and a Smoking, Drinking and Drug Use Among Young People report.
Office for National Statistics (ONS) also provide information on smoking habits, smoking cessation and smoking amongst children. They have also published a report on adult smoking habits.
Local Tobacco Control Profiles provide a snapshot of the extent of tobacco use, tobacco related harm, and measures being taken to reduce this harm at a local level.
The OHID Health Profiles and Child Health Profiles provide snapshot overviews of health for local areas, and include some data on smoking, smoking related deaths and smoking during pregnancy.
The Public Health Outcomes Framework also provides some data on smoking
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) also produce a range of fact sheets, briefings and research reports.

Our resources

Data and reports

External resources