High cost of cigarettes to help quitters

Published date23 April 2024
Publication titleHuddersfield Daily Examiner
Communicating the potential savings people can make by cutting out cigarettes could help even more people quit, academics said

It is expected that the cost of a pack of cigarettes will top £16 from October 2026, after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt hiked tobacco duty in his spring Budget this year.

Researchers, led by academics from University College London, wanted to assess whether the coronavirus pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis had an impact on smokers' desires to quit.

Some 5,777 smokers in England were involved in the study. Each had made one or more serious attempts to quit in the last year.

Some were surveyed each month between 2018 and 2023 to capture changes in time.

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