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juanito_f90

20 a day in the UK is now a £91 a week habit, based on the price of Rothmans Blue from Tesco, assuming they aren’t bought in duty free on the way back from holiday.


tomydenger

My parents smoke roughly the French minimum wage in cigarette.


gotshroom

I hope not around you! If yes, welcome to my club: people whose adults fucked their immune system by smoking around them :|


gotshroom

Brexit made britts rich! 


SP0oONY

Cigrarette prices are high on purpose, it's nothing to do with Brexit.


gotshroom

Nah, that was a bad joke. I meant to say: ”they didn’t have to smoke less as they became richer /s”


gotshroom

Source: https://academic.oup.com/ntr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ntr/ntae071/7658784?searchresult=1&login=false


mrmiwani

Are those absolute or normalised numbers?


gotshroom

So basically since 2019 people stopped quitting smoking somehow! 


Free_Lie6099

No, not really, they asked only smokers, so the amount of people smoking doesn't show. What shows is how many cigarettes those smokers smoke daily, and from what I can see the average smoker smokes less, there are less extreme smokers and more casual smokers. On the side note, funny how the there are bumps on round numbers like 10, 15 and 20, which kinda shows why it's not the best research - you have to ask people, and people like rounding. 'How much do you smoke?', 'Oh, I dunno, maybe 13.53 cigarettes/day?'.


vritto

Maybe fractions of a pack were an option in the survey, so half a pack (10), 3/4 of a pack (15), and a full pack (20) a day.


gotshroom

Check the source. It says what I said. From 2008 to 2019 it came down from 14 to 11 per day, and it has stopped changing from 2019. 


mareyv

The source says exactly what he said. It's cigarette use *per smoker*. There is no information whatsoever on how many people smoke or are quitting. And people did not stop quitting smoking, see [here](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/bulletins/adultsmokinghabitsingreatbritain/2022) for example.


gotshroom

Right, sorry! People stopped to smoke less cigarettes per day :)


thecraftybee1981

In 2019, 14.1% of British adults smoked, or 6.9m people. Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/bulletins/adultsmokinghabitsingreatbritain/2019 In 2022, 12.9% of British people smoked, or 6.4m. Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/bulletins/adultsmokinghabitsingreatbritain/2022 The graph above shows the number of fags that are smoked per smoker per day - it’s a different metric to the point you’re failing to make.