"Figure 4: The proportion of current smokers continued to decrease","" "Proportion of current smokers by sex, all persons aged 16 years and over, Great Britain, 1974 to 2020","" "","" "Notes","1. In March 2020, the survey moved to weekly data collection and the sample size increased tenfold. " "Unit","%" "","" "","Persons","Male","Female" "1974","45.6","51.4","40.7" "1976","41.8","46.2","38.0" "1978","40.2","44.5","36.6" "1980","39.4","42.4","36.8" "1982","35.3","37.8","33.1" "1984","34.0","36.3","32.1" "1986","32.7","34.6","31.0" "1988","31.6","32.9","30.4" "1990","30.0","31.0","29.1" "1992","28.4","29.4","27.6" "1994","26.8","28.2","25.6" "1996","28.0","28.6","27.5" "1998","27.1","28.2","26.1" "2000","27.0","28.5","25.5" "2001","26.9","28.3","25.6" "2002","25.9","26.8","25.0" "2003","26.0","28.0","24.2" "2004","24.6","26.4","23.0" "2005","23.9","25.3","22.7" "2006","22.0","23.2","20.9" "2007","20.9","22.1","19.7" "2008","21.1","21.6","20.6" "2009","21.0","22.0","20.2" "2010","20.3","20.9","19.8" "2011","19.8","21.0","18.8" "2012","20.4","22.2","18.8" "2013","19.2","21.6","16.8" "2014","18.8","20.4","17.2" "2015","17.8","19.1","16.6" "2016","16.1","17.7","14.5" "2017","16.8","18.7","15.0" "2018","16.6","17.0","16.2" "2019","15.8","17.9","13.8" "2020","14.5","15.3","13.7"