Scottish Health Survey 2013 - volume 1: main report

References and notes

1 Koplan JP, and Mackay J. Curtailing tobacco use: first we need to know the numbers. The Lancet 2012; 380 (9842):629-30.

2 ScotPHO Smoking Ready Reckoner - 2011 Edition. http://www.scotpho.org.uk/publications/reports-and-papers/868-smoking-ready-reckoner

3 www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Performance/scotPerforms/indicator/mortality

4 National Performance Framework: Changes to the National Indicator Set Edinburgh: Scottish Government, 2012. www.scotland.gov.uk/About/scotPerforms/NIchanges See also: www.scotlandperforms.com

5 Creating a Tobacco-free Generation: A Tobacco Control Strategy for Scotland. Edinburgh: Scottish Government, 2013. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0041/00417331.pdf

6 The 2007 Better Health, Better Care action plan for improving health and health care in Scotland set out how NHS Scotland's HEAT performance management system (based around a series of targets against which the performance of its individual Boards are measured) would feed into the Government's overarching objectives. The HEAT targets derive their name from the four strands in the performance framework: the Health Improvement of the population; Efficiency and Governance Improvements; Access to NHS services and waiting times; and Treatment and quality of services.

7 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/Performance/scotPerforms/partnerstories/NHSScotlandperformance/smokingcessation

8 http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/16002/PublicationAnnual

9 https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Comparability-Report-Final.pdf

10 Statistics on smoking prevalence taken from Scottish Health Survey, Health Survey for England, Welsh Health Survey and Health Survey for Northern Ireland are assessed to be Partially Comparable. See https://gss.civilservice.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Comparability-Report-Final.pdf for further details.

11 Gray, L and Leyland, AH. (2009). Chapter 4: Smoking. In Bromley, C, Bradshaw, P and Given, L. (eds.) The 2008 Scottish Health Survey - Volume 1: Main Report. Edinburgh: Scottish Government. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/09/28102003/0

12 Gray, L and Leyland, AH. (2013). Chapter 4: Smoking. In Rutherford, L, Hinchliffe, S and Sharp, C. (eds.) The Scottish Health Survey 2012 - Volume 1: Main Report. Edinburgh: Scottish Government. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2013/09/3684

13 See Volume 2 of this report for a more detailed description of the biological module

14 MacGregor, A and Wardle, H. Chapter 2: Smoking. In Bromley, C., Shelton, N. and Sproston, K. (eds.) (2005). The Scottish Health Survey 2003 - Volume 2: Adults. Edinburgh: Scottish Executive. www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/12/02160336/03367

15 Miller, M. (2010). Chapter 4: Smoking. In Bromley, C, Given, L, and Ormston, R. (eds.) The 2009 Scottish Health Survey - Volume 1: Main Report. Edinburgh, Scottish Government. www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/09/23154223/0

16 Dowling, S (2012). Chapter 4: Smoking. In Rutherford, L, Sharp, C. and Bromley, C. (eds.) The Scottish Health Survey 2012 - Volume 1: Main Report. Edinburgh: Scottish Government. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2012/09/7854/30

17 Geometric means can only be calculated for positive numbers. The cases in the dataset with values of zero were therefore converted to 0.05 prior to the calculation. 0.05ng/ml is the lowest value for cotinine detectable by the tests used in the survey.