This report presents newly published information on smoking including:

• Smoking-related hospital admissions from NHS Digital's Hospital Episode Statistics (HES).
• Smoking-related deaths from Office for National Statistics (ONS) mortality statistics.
• Prescription items used to help people stop smoking from prescribing data held by NHS Prescription Services.
• Affordability of tobacco and expenditure on tobacco using ONS economic data.

Two new years of data have been provided for hospital admissions (2018/19 and 2019/20) and deaths (2018 and 2019) and one year of data for prescribing (2018/19) and affordability and expenditure (2019).

The report also provides links to information on smoking by adults and children drawn together from a variety of sources.