How teen smoking rates have fallen EIGHT-FOLD since the 80s amid the UK's war ... trends now
Teen smoking rates are eight times lower now than they were in the 80s thanks to the Government's war on tobacco.
Only 3 per cent of 15 year olds in England now smoke, official figures show.
For comparison, a quarter did so in 1982. Rates fell quickest in the early noughties, according to an historical survey ran by the NHS.
Experts say the introduction of modern anti-smoking laws, like selling cigarettes in plain packaging, are behind the huge fall.
Other tough measures deployed in the past two decades include slapping graphic warning labels depicting their damaging health effects on all tobacco and banning smoking in restaurants, pubs and nightclubs.
Gen Z are thought to now view the deadly habit as uncool. Social media users tore into model Kylie Jenner when she was pictured smoking on Instagram in 2019. One fumed: 'She's smoking. Unfollow — I thought you were cool.' Another bluntly commented: 'Stop smoking nasty'
Last year, actor Cole Sprouse was branded 'cringe' for smoking indoors during an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast. Others joked he successfully made smoking cigarettes look 'uncool' and should be the next face of an anti-smoking ad
Gen Z are thought to now view the deadly habit as uncool.
Social media users tore into model Kylie Jenner when she was pictured smoking on Instagram in 2019.
One fumed: 'She's smoking. Unfollow — I thought you were cool.' Another bluntly commented: 'Stop smoking nasty.'
Last year, Disney star Cole Sprouse was also branded 'cringe' for smoking indoors during an interview on the Call Her Daddy podcast.
Others joked he successfully made smoking cigarettes look 'uncool' and should be the next face of an anti-smoking ad.
The latest teen figures, for 2021, suggest just four per cent of boys aged 15 and three per cent of girls now smoke.
This marked a three-fold drop on just a decade earlier, when 11 per cent regularly lit up.
The sharpest drop came between 2006 and 2012 when total rates halved from 20 to 10 per cent.
The same policies have also caused smoking rates to tumble in adults.
Nationwide, only about one in eight people in the UK now smoke. Almost half did so in the mid-70s, according to data compiled by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and NHS England.
Yet there is still a huge disparity in rates across the country.
Approximately one in four still light up in some local authorities in England, such as mid-Devon (25.1 per cent) and Hastings (23.7 per cent).
But just 2.9 per cent of adults smoke in Stafford (2.9 per cent).
Rushcliffe in Nottinghamshire logged an equally low figure, where just 4 per cent of adults still light up.
Just seven of roughly 300 local areas currently meet the 2030 'smoke-free' target of less than five per cent.
MailOnline has compiled the smoking data, collected by the Office for National Statistics's 'Annual Population Survey', into an interactive map.
It comes as Rishi Sunak's bold plan to ban the next generation from ever smoking yesterday moved a
