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posted by martyb on Tuesday September 20 2016, @04:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the How-much-did-folks-at-Stonehenge-smoke? dept.

In a sign that maybe there is hope for the survival of the human race, The Guardian reports that the number of cigarette smokers in the UK has dropped to less than 17%, the lowest number in half a century.

In 1974, over 50% of men in Britain were smokers; that had fallen to just 19.1% in England in 2015. Similarly, just over 40% of women smoked back then; last year it was only 14.9%.

There are now just 7.2 million adults in England who smoke. They are far outnumbered by 14.6 million ex-smokers. It is the first time that under 17% of the population are smokers and is down from the 19.3% seen as recently as 2012.

Interestingly the success rate for people trying to quit has jumped from 13.6% to around 20%.

Some of this may reflect the price of smokes - which look to be between £8 and £10 ($13 US) for a pack of twenty. (Canadian prices are sitting around $9-10 CDN)

And, in the interest of what passes for "balance" these days, there are groups that will dispute the health risks of smoking tobacco.

Disclaimer: Smoked for twenty+ years, mostly plain Camels. Yummmm..... Quit cold turkey.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 20 2016, @05:54PM (#404367)

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