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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

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      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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National Statistics

Statistics on Smoking, England - 2016 [NS]

Publication date: May 27, 2016

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Summary

Update: On 11/07/2016 historical data in excel table 1.2 was updated to reflect revisions made to the source data by ONS. The chart which uses these data on slide 23 has not been updated as the revisions have a minimal effect on the trends in the data series.

 

This statistical report presents a range of information on smoking which is drawn together from a variety of sources. The report aims to present a broad picture of health issues relating to smoking in England and covers topics such as smoking prevalence, habits, behaviours and attitudes among adults and school children, smoking-related ill health and mortality and smoking-related costs.

 

The topics covered include:

 

Part 1: Smoking patterns in adults

 

Part 2: Smoking patterns in children

 

Part 3: Availability and affordability of tobacco

 

Part 4: Behaviour and attitudes to smoking

 

Part 5: Smoking-related costs, ill health and mortality

 

Each part provides an overview of the key findings on these topics, as well as providing links to sources of further information and relevant documents.

 

This report contains data and information previously published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC), Department of Health, the Office for National Statistics and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. The report also includes new analyses carried out by the Health and Social Care Information Centre.

 

Key facts

Smoking prevalence

 

• In 2014, 19 per cent of adults in Great Britain currently smoked, down from a peak of 46 per cent in 1974.

 

• Average consumption among smokers was 11 cigarettes a day – the lowest daily cigarette consumption since the series began when it was 16.

 

• In 2014, 18 per cent of secondary school pupils reported they had tried smoking at least once.

 

Hospital admissions

 

• There were 1.7 million admissions for conditions that could be caused by smoking in 2014/15. This is an average of 4.7 thousand admissions per day.

 

• Of these 475 thousand (28 per cent) were estimated to be attributed to smoking.

 

Deaths

 

• There were 78,000 deaths in 2014 which were estimated to be attributed to smoking.

 

E-cigarettes

 

• In 2015, 4 per cent of adults in Great Britain were current e-cigarette users.

 

• More secondary school pupils reported having tried e-cigarettes at least once (22 per cent) than traditional cigarettes (18 per cent).

 

Expenditure

 

• In 2015, tobacco was 27 per cent less affordable than it was in 2005.

 

• Tobacco expenditure as a proportion of total household expenditure has fallen to 1.7 per cent in 2015 from 3.3 per cent in 1985.

 

Prescriptions

 

• In 2014/15 the number of prescription items dispensed in England to help people stop smoking was 1.3 million, compared to 2.0 million ten years ago.

 

• The net ingredient cost was £38.1 million

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It really is a bad habit.

 

Dose any one agree smoking should be classed as suicide?

 

 

Think everyone would agree it's a bad habit, class it as suicide, don't think so.

You'd need to include drink and drug abuse.

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It says on my door in hospital that 1 in 2 people die from smoking so you have a 50-50 percent chance of catching a health issue.

 

No one forces these things into a persons mouth. (normally)

 

im pleased you agree its a bad habit as I no people that think its kewl.

 

that is not me

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it is a addiction , however i managed to quit from 30 a day. i got help from my gp's surgery and managed it after a few times of quiting i smoked from 16 to aroun d 30 stopped 10 month later started again and then finally quit . I still get urges now and again .and as for my lungs they finally feel clean again

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it is a addiction , however i managed to quit from 30 a day. i got help from my gp's surgery and managed it after a few times of quiting i smoked from 16 to aroun d 30 stopped 10 month later started again and then finally quit . I still get urges now and again .and as for my lungs they finally feel clean again

 

Well done!

I have tried quitting so many times and failed.

It's the most stupid habit I ever picked up, but there you go.

One day I might find the strength to stop for good...

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I quit smoking in Jan 2015, I had a 30+ day habit & I was buying fags @ 40/60/80 a time. The cost was astonishing!

 

I finally managed to quit after my eldest son (who quit over 2 yrs ago) got me a vape.

 

It took a good month to get used to it & a bit longer for the urges to go buy fags to stop. It was more a mental thing as I kept visualising going to buy fags.

 

Best thing I ever did was quit, the money I saved from smoking went on doing up my garden & home. I saw the costs of everything as in packs of fags, I.E new gazebo = 35 packs.

 

Good luck to anyone trying to quit!

 

Edit; too early for spelling. Lol

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every single minute of it!!

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