Smoking study

EMBARGOED TO 0001 THURSDAY APRIL 18 File photo dated 14/06/2007 of a cigarette burning on an ashtray. There has been a rise in the proportion of middle and upper-class women under the age of 45 smoking, a study suggests. While smoking rates have fallen among working-class women in England, they appear to have jumped in more advantaged groups. Furthermore, vaping among all women aged 18 to 45 has more than tripled in a decade, rising from 5.1% to 19.7% between 2013 and 2023, researchers found. Issue date: Thursday April 18, 2024.