Talk:Smoking in the United Kingdom

Delete contentious statement

In the first paragraph, it starts smoking is a pressure on the NHS etc... but then says: "However, access to the NHS is based solely on National Insurance payments, therefore this argument is invalid."

1) this is a political perspective and biased 2) this is patently untrue, access to NHS services is based purely on immigration status, and national insurance contributions are irrelevant. 3) if NI contributions were relevant, it wouldn't make this argument invalid in any case!

Therefore I have removed that statement. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.254.49.30 (talk) 09:49, 29 May 2015 (UTC)

Non-public? / Menthol

The laws refer to being in public, does that mean a person can legally be given a cigarette and legally smoke it in their own home while under 18?

I would question the real reason for banning menthol cigarettes. My experience with them is they make cigarettes tast terrible and have an unpleasant effect on the stomach. More like governments not wanting to put people off smoking and therefore in a countrywide population potentially losing millions in tax.

Middle More Rider (talk) 00:34, 29 October 2021 (UTC)

Misleading graph

The graph at the beginning on the page "Smoking consumption among all adults over time in the United Kingdom" contains misleading scaling.

The X axis switches from being 10 year increments to 5 year increments, with one 8 year increment, but the scale of the axis remains the same.

The Y axis is oddly scaled to crop out the bottom 10%, suggesting that the percentage of smokes is lower than it is. It maxing out at 50% also isn't great, but this seems sort of reasonable given it would double the height of the graph.

These things combined make the data difficult to clearly read and understand. Moff181 (talk) 16:41, 10 October 2023 (UTC)