Band 6+: The graph below gives information about the number of people who smoked cigarettes in the UK between 2011 and 2021. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart displays the number of males and females who smoked cigarettes in Britain during the 10-year period between 2011 and 2021.

Overall, The number of men and women who smoked decreased over ten years. The other significant feature of this graph is that men continued the largest portion of the group.

The number of male and female smokers were the biggest consumer of smoking in 2011 with just over 4 million and nearly 3.5 million respectively. Although the figure for both genders of smokers has declined around 1 and 2 million between 2011 and 2012, there was a gradual drop in smoking for both ladies and gentleman over the next 7 years at around 2.5 and 1.5 million. Moreover, the number of both genders of smokers diminished slightly at the end of the period reaching nearly 1 million.

Furthermore, at the beginning of the period the lowest difference between men and women was just 0.5 million, conversely, the highest number of male smokers was about 3 times more than women smokers.