Indicator

Population

Level

Source

Item

Non-smoking is viewed as the norm

Adults

Location of smoking – move from enclosed public places to open spaces, cars/vehicles and the home

Adults

Scotland

SHeS

SHeS: If you are in a room with children, do you… [whether smoke inside];
SHeS: Are you regularly exposed to other people’s tobacco smoke in any of these places?  Where else?
SHeS: If you are in a room with adults who don’t smoke, do you… [whether smoke inside]

Level of public support for the enforcement of smoking ban

Adult

Great Britain

ONS

SBA: Views on smoking restrictions in public places; views on smoking restrictions at work (ONS).

Level of public support for the enforcement of smoking ban

Adult

Great Britain

ONS

SBA: Views on smoking restrictions in public places; views on smoking restrictions at work (ONS).

Level of support for voluntary smoke-free policies in the home/in cars

Adults

Great Britain

ONS

SBA: Attitudes to smoking in home; non-smokers’ attitudes towards people smoking near them; smokers’ behaviour in presence of non-smokers

% of young people who are ‘susceptible never-smokers’

S2, S4

Scotland;
Regional

SALSUS (13- and 15- year olds only)

Can be derived from a series of questions in SALSUS:
SALSUS: Young people stating they have never smoked
SALSUS: What about your friends, how many of them smoke?
SALSUS: Which if any of the following people smoke? (family and friends)

Level of public support for the enforcement of underage sales

Adult

Great Britain

ONS

SBA: Views on increase in legal age of purchase of tobacco:  How important is it that shops are prevented from selling cigarettes to u16s? 

Level of public support for increased tax on tobacco

Adult

Great Britain

ONS

SBA: Views re taxation on tobacco: Do you think the government should increase the tax on cigarettes much more than the rate of inflation, just above the rate of inflation, only in line with inflation or not at all?

Level of public support for provision of cessation services

Adults

Great Britain

ONS

SBA: Have you in the past year asked the doctor or other health professionals for help to quit?, been referred/self referred to a stop smoking group/clinic/ service and/or had any Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT), such as gums, patches, inhalator, or other drugs designed to help people quit smoking?