Embargoed press release: White van man struggles to quit

Embargoed 10th March 2010 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