Researchers found that the average person who smokes dropped from smoking 14 cigarettes per day in January 2008 to 11 cigarettes per day in October 2019. But the number hasn’t budged since. And people who smoke daily are getting through an extra cigarette every day now.
Across the population there are still 45.5m cigarettes smoked every day in England, down from 77.1m per day in 2011.
This latest study, funded by Cancer Research UK and published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, shows that the fight against tobacco is far from over, as smokers continue to struggle to cut down their intake.
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