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Smoking: Death

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people died from smoking in England in each year since 2021.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 Jan 2026
Target answer date
8 Jan 2026
Answer
15 Jan 2026 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Jan 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people died from smoking in England in each year since 2021.

  2. 8 Jan 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 15 Jan 2026

    Answer published

    The latest estimates for smoking-attributable mortality in England are for the period 2017 to 2019. The Smoking Profile, produced by the Department, reports 191,903 smoking-attributable deaths of people aged 35 years old and over in the period 2017 to 201...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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