News alert / Smoking-related hospital admissions

Smoking-related hospital admissions in England increased by nearly 5% in 2022/23, compared with the previous year, but remain lower than before Covid. Statistics from NHS England show that in 2022/23 there were an estimated 408,700 hospital admissions due to smoking, up 4.8% on 2021/22. NHS England’s Statistics on Public Health for 2023 show smoking-related admissions in each of the past three years were lower than in 2019/20, prior to the pandemic. Around one in six (16%) of all hospital admissions for respiratory diseases in 2022/23 were estimated to be related to smoking. Smoking is also noted as being responsible for 8% of all admissions for cancers and 7% for cardiovascular diseases.