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(See Appendix 2 for more details) Overall smoking prevalence trends Daily smoking (defined as a survey participant smoking daily and having smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime) prevalence in 2024/25 was 6.8% (95% CI: 6.2-7.4%), which is an estimated 294,000 people (Figure 1)

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