The tobacco epidemic is one of the biggest threats the world has ever faced, and it kills 8 million people a year worldwide. In 2019, a national ambition was set for England to become smokefree by 2030. Essex has also matched this ambition by signing the Local Government Declaration on Tobacco Control on October 2023.
To support Essex going smoke free, we need to understand more about smoking behaviours and need across the districts. In order to do that we recently completed a tobacco control needs assessment. Our tobacco needs assessment summarises the data on a smoking prevalence, the impact of smoking across the life-course, smoking related inequalities and information on local stop smoking services. We have taken an intersectional approach to inequalities and built profiles at district level and looked at the damage to the environment caused by the tobacco industry.
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