{"id":53205,"date":"2023-11-23T18:36:46","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T18:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=53205"},"modified":"2023-11-23T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T18:36:46","slug":"how-smoking-was-stubbed-out-by-rising-prices-just-one-in-10-britons-now-light-up-down-from-almost-half-50-years-ago-with-the-cost-of-20-cigarettes-soaring-five-fold-to-15-in-three-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/11\/23\/how-smoking-was-stubbed-out-by-rising-prices-just-one-in-10-britons-now-light-up-down-from-almost-half-50-years-ago-with-the-cost-of-20-cigarettes-soaring-five-fold-to-15-in-three-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"How smoking was stubbed out by rising prices: Just one in 10 Britons now light up &#8211; down from almost half 50 years ago &#8211; with the cost of 20 cigarettes soaring five-fold to \u00a315 in three decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46062\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cigarette-single-warning-300x172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cigarette-single-warning-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cigarette-single-warning-360x207.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/cigarette-single-warning.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just one in 10 Britons now light up a cigarette as the cost of a packet of 20 has soared past \u00a315 due to rising taxes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/how-smoking-was-stubbed-out-by-rising-prices-just-one-in-10-britons-now-light-up-down-from-almost-half-50-years-ago-with-the-cost-of-20-cigarettes-soaring-five-fold-to-15-in-three-decades\/ar-AA1kqlbK?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=104cdaa00c324640b465a6fcc0671e08&amp;ei=31\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Just one in 10 Britons now light up a cigarette as the cost of a packet of 20 has soared past \u00a315&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53205","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/cigarettes.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53206,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53205\/revisions\/53206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}