Lung Cancer (C33-C34) and Smoking Prevalence: 1948-2017

European 2013 Age-Standardised Incidence Rates per 100,000 Population and Smoking Prevalence, by Sex, Great Britain

Year 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1974 1978 1979 1980
Female smoking prevalence percentage 41 41 38 38 38 37 36 37 41 44 39 42 42 43 42 43 41 42 45 44 43 44 44 41 37 #N/A 37
Male smoking prevalence percentage 65 63 62 62 59 59 59 58 61 60 58 60 61 59 57 54 54 54 54 54 55 54 55 51 44 #N/A 42
Female lung cancer incidence rate 38.1 39.8
Male lung cancer incidence rate 176.2 175.6

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1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
#N/A 33 #N/A 32 #N/A 31 #N/A 30 #N/A 29 #N/A 28 #N/A 26 #N/A 28 #N/A 26 #N/A 25 26 25 24 23 23 21 20 21 20 20
#N/A 38 #N/A 36 #N/A 35 #N/A 33 #N/A 31 #N/A 29 #N/A 28 #N/A 29 #N/A 28 #N/A 29 28 27 28 26 25 23 22 22 22 21
41.9 43.1 44.5 45.5 48.6 47.8 49.5 51.0 50.3 51.1 51.5 53.8 52.8 54.0 53.3 53.3 53.9 54.2 54.6 56.1 55.4 55.3 56.2 57.3 58.7 61.0 61.7 64.6 64.0 65.0
174.6 173.4 174.7 169.9 175.0 165.7 161.7 160.3 154.1 151.3 149.2 149.8 141.7 139.3 130.1 124.5 124.1 119.1 116.1 115.0 111.9 106.9 103.7 105.3 102.6 104.7 102.2 102.8 100.1 99.2
2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
19 19 17 17 17 15 15
21 22 22 20 19 18 19
66.7 69.3 69.0 69.4 69.3 69.5 69.6
99.4 99.1 97.7 96.0 93.3 93.2 88.9