'The smoking toolkit study': a national study of smoking and smoking cessation in England

Fidler, Jennifer A; Shahab, Lion; West, Oliver; Jarvis, Martin J; McEwen, Andy; Stapleton, John A; Vangeli, Eleni; West, Robert

doi:10.1186/1471-2458-11-479

Table 4 Cigarette smoking prevalence (percent, 95% CI) by sociodemographics for each survey from 2007-2009 where available

From: 'The smoking toolkit study': a national study of smoking and smoking cessation in England

		2007	2008	2009†
Total	STS	24.1 (23.6 to 24.7)	22.0 (21.4 to 22.6)	21.5 (21.0 to 22.1)
population	GLF	20.5 (19.8 to 21.3)	20.9 (19.9 to 22.0)	21 (20.0 to 22.0)
	HSE	22.3 (21.0 to 23.6)	21.7 (20.9 to 22.6)	22 (20.4 to 23.6)
	Heterogeneity	X² = 50.3, p < 0.001	X² = 2.97, p = 0.227	X² = 1.3, p = 0.535
Gender
Men	STS	25.6 (24.7 to 26.4)	22.9 (22.0 to 23.8)	22.6 (21.8 to 23.5)
	GLF	22.0 (20.8 to 23.2)	21.9 (20.6 to 23.3)	22 (20.7 to 23.3)
	HSE	23.8 (22.1 to 25.5)	23.7 (22.5 to 25.0)	24 (21.8 to 26.2)
	Heterogeneity	X² = 22.4, p < 0.001	X² = 3.7, p = 0.159	X² = 2.4, p = 0.306
Women	STS	22.8 (22.0 to 23.6)	21.2 (20.4 to 22.0)	20.5 (19.7 to 21.3)
	GLF	19.2 (18.2 to 20.3)	20.1 (18.9 to 21.3)	20 (18.8 to 21.2)
	HSE	20.8 (19.4 to 22.4)	19.9 (18.9 to 20.8)	20 (18.1 to 21.9)
	Heterogeneity	X² = 29.2, p < 0.001	X² = 4.7, p = 0.095	X² = 0.58, p = 0.750
Age
16-24	STS	32.7 (31.2 to 34.3)	29.3 (27.7 to 31.0)	28.3 (26.8 to 29.9)
	GLF	27.2 (24.3 to 30.0)	27.6 (24.4 to 31.1)	-
	HSE	25.3 (21.8 to 29.2)	26.2 (23.9 to 28.6)	-
	Heterogeneity	X² = 20.2, < 0.001	X² = 4.6, p = 0.099	-
25-44	STS	28.2 (27.2 to 29.2)	27.1 (26.0 to 28.1)	26.3 (25.3 to 27.3)
	GLF	24.4 (23.0 to 25.8)	24.9 (23.1 to 26.8)	-
	HSE	27.9 (25.7 to 30.0)	28.4 (26.8 to 30.0)	-
	Heterogeneity	X² = 19.5, p < 0.001	X² = 7.9, p = 0.019	-
45-64	STS	23.3 (22.3 to 24.3)	20.3 (19.3 to 21.3)	20.5 (19.5 to 21.5)
	GLF	20.8 (19.5 to 22.2)	20.8 (19.3 to 22.5)	-
	HSE	21.3 (19.5 to 23.3)	19.2 (18.0 to 20.5)	-
	Heterogeneity	X² = 0.95, p = 0.008	X² = 2.76, p = 0.251	-
65+	STS	11.1 (10.2 to 12.1)	9.7 (8.7 to 10.6)	9.4 (8.5 to 10.3)
	GLF	9.5 (8.5 to 10.7)	10.1 (9.0 to 11.4)	-
	HSE	11.2 (9.6 to 13.0)	10.2 (9.2 to 11.3)	-
	Heterogeneity	X² = 4.6, p = 0.100	X² = 0.49, p = 0.784	-
SES*
High SES	STS	17.9 (17.3 to 18.6)	15.3 (14.6 to 16.0)	15.7 (15.1 to 16.4)
	GLF	15.7 (14.8 to 16.7)	16.0 (14.9 to 17.2)	-
	HSE	16.9 (15.5 to 18.4)	17.4 (16.5 to 18.4)	-
	Heterogeneity	X² = 12.6, p = 0.002	X² = 11.4, p = 0.0003	-
Low SES	STS	31.9 (31.0 to 32.8)	30.4 (29.4 to 31.4)	29.1 (28.1 to 30.0)
	GLF	27.5 (26.1 to 29.0)	29.3 (27.6 to 31.0)	-
	HSE	29.8 (27.8 to 31.9)	28.0 (26.6 to 29.5)	-
	Heterogeneity	X² = 26.2, p < 0.001	X² = 7.3, p = 0.027	-

†Data in 2009 is only available for GLF and HSE in published reports and is not appropriately split by age and socio-economic status. Confidence intervals for GLF and HSE in 2009 are estimated based on actual base sample size and confidence intervals in previous years.
*STS = social grade split ABC1 (high SES) & C2DE (low SES), HSE = NSSEC (household) split Professional/Managerial/Intermediate (high SES) & Routine/Manual (low SES).

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