Working from home during the pandemic may have stopped people quitting smoking, researchers have suggested.
*sighs*
The rate of decline in smoking rates across England appears to have 'stagnated', with more young people taking up smoking during the pandemic and a slower decline in the middle classes quitting than those who were less affluent.
With the constant price hikes they can at least afford to!
Researchers suggested that people who are less affluent may have felt more urgency to quit during the pandemic, while those who were wealthier and had professional or managerial roles may have carried on smoking due to stress.
No s**t, Sherlock!
The study warned that the Government needs to 'reignite progress in reducing smoking among the more advantaged social grades and identify ways to accelerate the decline among less advantaged groups' if it is to get near its target of making England smoke-free by 2030.
Why have the government - a Conservative government, at that - set such bizarre targets in the first place?
It's just a continuation of their old and well used methods. Creat a problem, impose a solution. And the solution is always more restrictions on individual freedoms.
ReplyDeleteI've also concluded that we are always made to pay for this rubbish, with no option to refuse.