21st June 2016 - New report - Smoking attributable deaths in Scotland: trend analysis and breakdown by disease type and age groups 2003-2014

This report expands on the smoking attributable deaths analysis produced for the local profiles published by ScotPHO (ScotPHO Profiles), focusing specifically on the results by age group and smoking-related diseases, as well as splitting the results by gender. New analyses show trends in smoking attributable deaths for 2003 and 2008-2014. There is some discussion of current and previous methodologies used to calculate smoking attributable deaths, as well as a full description of the current method. Time trends and other results are presented by disease type, age group and gender.

See the report's publication page for further details and to download the report.