In 30 years, today's 7.4 million smokers will reduce to zero in England, a new report claims.
York and Wokingham are set to go cigarette free in 2026.
The predictions in the study, commissioned by tobacco firm Philip Morris and conducted by analysts Frontier Economics, were based on employment, income, education and health data.In 1990, almost a third of British adults smoked, but that figure has halved to around 15 per cent since then.Mark MacGregor, UK Corporate Affairs Director of PML, said: ‘There are more alternative options than ever to help people give up cigarettes for good.
Deprived areas have a higher rate of smokers, the study found, with the three areas with the highest rates of smoking Kingston upon Hull, Blackpool and North Lincolnshire. Researchers have previously said that the decision to remove cigarettes from display in shops played an ‘important role in reducing child smokers’.
The UK Government made it illegal to have cigarettes on show on the shelf in 2015 in a crackdown on smoking.
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