How teen smoking rates have fallen EIGHT-FOLD since the 80s amid the UK's war on tobacco which has made lighting up 'uncool' - as interactive map reveals up to a quarter of adults still smoke in parts of the nation

Teen smoking rates are 8 times little now than they were successful nan 80s acknowledgment to nan Government's warfare connected tobacco.

Only 3 per cent of 15 twelvemonth olds successful England now smoke, charismatic figures show. 

For comparison, a 4th did truthful successful 1982. Rates fell quickest successful nan early noughties, according to an humanities study ran by nan NHS.

Experts opportunity nan preamble of modern anti-smoking laws, for illustration trading cigarettes successful plain packaging, are down nan immense fall.

Other reliable measures deployed successful nan past 2 decades see slapping schematic informing labels depicting their damaging wellness effects connected each baccy and banning smoking in restaurants, pubs and nightclubs. 

Gen Z are thought to now position nan deadly wont arsenic uncool. 

Social media users tore into exemplary Kylie Jenner when she was pictured smoking connected Instagram successful 2019.

One fumed: 'She's smoking. Unfollow — I thought you were cool.' Another bluntly commented: 'Stop smoking nasty.' 

Last year, Disney prima Cole Sprouse was besides branded 'cringe' for smoking indoors during an question and reply connected nan Call Her Daddy podcast.

Others joked he successfully made smoking cigarettes look 'uncool' and should beryllium nan adjacent look of an anti-smoking ad. 

The latest teen figures, for 2021, propose conscionable 4 per cent of boys aged 15 and 3 per cent of girls now smoke.

This marked a three-fold driblet connected conscionable a decade earlier, erstwhile 11 per cent regularly lit up. 

The sharpest driblet came betwixt 2006 and 2012 erstwhile full rates halved from 20 to 10 per cent. 

The aforesaid policies person besides caused smoking rates to tumble successful adults.  

Nationwide, only astir 1 successful 8 group successful nan UK now smoke. Almost half did truthful successful nan mid-70s, according to information compiled by Action connected Smoking and Health (ASH) and NHS England. 

Yet location is still a immense disparity successful rates crossed nan country.

Approximately 1 successful 4 still ray up successful immoderate section authorities successful England, specified arsenic mid-Devon (25.1 per cent) and Hastings (23.7 per cent).

But conscionable 2.9 per cent of adults fume successful Stafford (2.9 per cent). 

Rushcliffe successful Nottinghamshire logged an arsenic debased figure, wherever conscionable 4 per cent of adults still ray up. 

Just 7 of astir 300 section areas presently meet nan 2030 'smoke-free' target of little than 5 per cent.

MailOnline has compiled nan smoking data, collected by nan Office for National Statistics's 'Annual Population Survey', into an interactive map.

It comes as Rishi Sunak's bold scheme to prohibition nan adjacent procreation from ever smoking yesterday moved a measurement person to becoming law.

Under nan bill, which MPs past nighttime voted to backmost by 383 to 67, anyone calved aft 2009 won't ever beryllium capable to legally bargain tobacco. 

If yet passed, it intends children aged 15 aliases younger coming will ne'er legally beryllium sold a cigarette. 

Mr Sunak's flagship smoking connection besides takes purpose astatine vapes.

Ministers would besides beryllium handed powers to restrict nan flavours and promotion of nan gadgets successful an effort to thwart nan UK's kid e-cig epidemic. 

This could alteration really nicotine-laden vapes are displayed successful shops, moving them distant from different products specified arsenic sweets. They would beryllium constricted successful flavours and sold successful plain, tobacco-style packaging. 

Council officers will besides beryllium fixed powers to dole retired £100 on-the-spot fines to shops caught breaking nan rules.

The smoking proposals, however, person agelong been criticised arsenic 'illiberal' by critics. 

They also fearfulness that wellness chiefs whitethorn oculus up crackdowns connected sugar, caffeine and alcohol next, calling nan move a 'slippery slope'. 

Fifty 9 Tory MPs — including six Government ministers  — past nighttime opposed nan plans. 

Among them included Kemi Badenoch, Steve Baker and ex-Cabinet ministers Suella Braverman, Sir Simon Clarke and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg.

More than 100 Tories besides grounded to vote, leaving conscionable 165 of nan cohort of 347 backing nan bill. 

Responding to nan ban's backlash, England's main aesculapian officer, yesterday rejected 'pro-choice' arguments.

Professor Sir Chris Whitty argued alternatively that cigarettes were a merchandise 'designed to return your prime away'.

The Government believes nan phased ban, raising nan ineligible property for purchasing baccy by 1 twelvemonth each twelvemonth from 2027, will lead to 1.7million less group smoking by 2075.

It predicts nan move will prevention tens of thousands of lives, and avoiding debar up to 115,000 cases of strokes, bosom disease, lung cancer and different lung diseases. 

The attack was initially recommended successful a Government-commissioned study published successful 2022 by ex-children's kindness main Javed Khan. 

Smoking kills astir 78,000 group successful nan UK each year, pinch galore much surviving pinch illnesses owed to their wont — half of which are owed to cardiovascular diseases, specified arsenic bosom onslaught and stroke. 

It is estimated that astir 500,000 infirmary admissions each twelvemonth successful England are attributable to smoking and that smoking costs nan system £17billion per year.

Of this, £2.4billion falls connected nan NHS, £1.19billion falls connected nan societal attraction system, and complete £13billion is mislaid successful productivity costs from tobacco-related mislaid earnings, unemployment and premature death.

The 7,000 chemicals successful baccy — including tar and others that tin constrictive arteries and harm humor vessels — are thought to beryllium down immoderate of nan harm smoking inflicts connected nan heart.

Meanwhile, nicotine — a highly addictive toxin recovered successful tobacco — is heavy linked pinch vulnerable increases successful bosom complaint and humor pressure.

Smoking besides unleashes venomous gases specified arsenic c monoxide, which replaces oxygen successful nan blood — reducing nan readiness of oxygen for nan heart.