New data suggest the city is on course to have no smokers at all by 2024.
Wokingham and York could be next – ciggie-free by 2026.
But people in Derby are expected to carry on puffing for at least another 30 years.
The findings come from research carried on behalf of tobacco giant Philip Morris.
It predicts England will not be completely smoker-free until well after 2050.
Last week Public Health England called for less than five per cent of people to be smoking by 2030.
The latest analysis suggests only a quarter of towns and cities will have quit completely by then.
Some regions have seen smoking rates drop 10 per cent since 2011.
But others have only fallen one per cent.
In Cheshire East, researchers found, smoking rates have actually risen over he last six years.
Poorer areas have the most smokers – with nearly one in four adults still hooked in Kingston-upon-Hull, Blackpool and north Lincolnshire.
WHO WILL QUIT FIRST?
THE BEST…
- Bristol 2024
- Wokingham 2026
- York 2026
- East Riding 2027
- Portsmouth 2027
THE WORST….ALL 2050 OR LATER
- North Lincs
- Derby
- Cheshire East
- Bedford
- North Yorks
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