No Smoking Day

Source: CisionWire (se)
Date: 2010-03-09

Research to mark No Smoking Day tomorrow (10 March) shows smoking
is increasingly the preserve of routine and manual groups in
Britain. Van drivers, builders and secretaries are now twice as
likely to smoke as people in managerial and professional
occupations, including doctors and teachers.

The research, conducted by the Office for National Statistics
(ONS), highlights a rapid fall in smoking prevalence amongst
professional groups in recent years, with much slower reductions
amongst routine and manual groups.

Of the nine million UK smokers, almost a third now live in
routine and manual households.

BBC Dragon’s Den star and No Smoking Day president Duncan
Bannatyne says, “These findings show that whilst we are
succeeding in controlling the smoking epidemic amongst the better
off, cigarettes are now the primary cause of health inequalities
in the UK.”