How to help a friend quit smoking
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Although smoking has reduced massively over the last 70 years, worrying new figures show the boredom and stress of lockdown led to many more young people taking up the habit.
Research funded by Cancer Research UK found that during the first lockdown there was a 25 per cent increase in 18 to 34-year-olds who smoke, which translated into a rise of more than 652,000 young adults.
Bearing in mind that smoking rates had fallen from 82% in 1948 to 14.7 per cent in 2019, it’s a concerning trend – as...
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