Sentences with phrase «cent of adult smokers»

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The plan sets out national ambitions to: Reduce adult (aged 18 or over) smoking prevalence in England to 18.5 per cent or less by the end of 2015 (from 21.2 per cent), meaning around 210,000 fewer smokers a year.

Now a study of 10,892 adults over 10 years has found that, in the first six years after giving up, former smokers are 70 per cent more likely than non-smokers to develop the disease.

• Stub it out: the proportion of smokers among adults in the UK fell from 20.1 per cent in 2010 to 15.5 per cent in 2016 (24 June, p 6).