Electronic Cigarettes

(asked on 7th November 2023) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of people who use vapes (a) as an aide to stop smoking cigarettes and (b) who did not previously smoke by (i) age, (ii) gender, (iii) ethnicity, (iv) socio-economic status and (v) integrated care system (A) location and (B) sub-location.


Answered by
Andrea Leadsom Portrait
Andrea Leadsom
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 20th November 2023

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) adult smoking habits survey provides some data on the proportion of people that vape in England.

In 2019, 52.8% e-cigarette users aged 16 years old and over were using them as an aid to stop smoking. This equates to just over one million adults in the population. This is the last time this information was collected due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 2022, 2.4% of adults aged 16 years old and over who had never smoked were current users of e-cigarettes. This equates almost 700,000 adults in the population.

Further breakdowns by age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic status, and integrated care system location and sub-location are not published by ONS.

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