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- Roger Dobson
- Abergavenny
Men and women from poorer backgrounds are more likely to smoke and less likely to give up the habit, a new study has found.
The annual quit rate among professional and managerial women in their 20s and 30s is almost twice that among those from unskilled manual backgrounds, says a study in the Journal of Public Health (2004:26:13-8).
Men were more likely to have smoked, but they were more likely to have given up by the age of 41, the …
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