1. Smoking Prevalence Estimates – latest update Julian Flowers erpho September 2007 EoE RDPH/DsPH meeting

2. Some key issues Smoking prevalence and reducing prevalence to 20% Monitoring the ban Smoking cessation

3. Smoking prevalence – national trends Source: General Household Survey 1972-2004 time series

4. EoE prevalence

5. LA smoking – new synthetic estimates

6. What’s the problem? Direct estimates of smoking prevalence locally Monitoring smoking Multiple potential data sources – Surveys – Primary care data – Commercial datasets What should we do?

7. Pooling prevalence estimates

8. Smoking cessation What’s the best denominator for public health monitoring? Is there merit in polling service data regionally?

9. Monitoring the ban What should we be/ are we doing?... Prevalence? Expenditure? Prescribing? MI rates….? Air quality?