The researchers focused on women between 18 and 45 as these are the ages when women are most likely to become pregnant and for whom smoking tobacco carries extra risks.
The study, funded by Cancer Research UK and published in BMC Medicine, estimated that the proportion of more advantaged women in this age group who smoked rose from 12 per cent to 15 per cent between 2013 and 2023.
This was in contrast to less advantaged women of the same age, who are more likely to smoke overall but whose smoking rates fell steadily during the same period, from 29 per cent to 22 per cent. Among adults overall, smoking declined over the 10 years, although this decline flattened during the pandemic.
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