Bobby Darling, on 20 June 2020 - 06:32 PM, said:
It is a bit of a myth about poorer people spending all their cash on fags. According to the Government’s own stats (used to target audiences in no smoking campaigns) 71% of unemployed people don’t smoke. Looking at the c2de group who work in manual jobs 76% don’t smoke. Across the group most likely to be receiving free dinners about one in four smoke. Maybe the kids you taught were pulling your leg. Hope you didn’t give them any cash.
But they are far more likely to smoke.
From the PHE report of 2018:
We are also seeing an ever-widening gap between people in routine and manual occupations and those in managerial and professional posts:
1 in 4 people in routine and manual occupations is a smoker compared to 1 in 10 in managerial and professional posts
The odds of smoking in the routine and manual group is more than twice that of other employed groups
People who are unemployed are almost twice as likely to smoke as those in work