Smoking

Smoking increases the risk of developing dementia – up to 5% of dementia cases worldwide could be prevented or delayed by tackling smoking.

Mukadam et al., Effective interventions for potentially modifiable risk factors for late-onset dementia: a costs and cost-effectiveness modelling study – The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Lancet Healthy Longevity, 2020.

Action on Smoking and Health, Fifteen Smokefree Years: Public support in England for measures to reduce the harm of smoking, 2022.

Cancer Research UK, Smoking prevalence projections for England based on data to 2021, 2022.

Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, The Khan review: making smoking obsolete, 2022.

ASH and SPECTRUM representation to Spring Budget 2023.

Action on Smoking and Health, Smoking and poverty briefing, 2022.