"Smoking to end by 2050"
Smoking could “virtually disappear” in Britain within half a century, according to research by Citigroup. The broker has considered what a decline in smoking means for the tobacco industry. The habit has been on the wane since the 1960s, when just over half of adults in Britain smoked. That figure had dropped to a fifth by 2008. "The percentage of smokers is declining across the developed world, and the declines are more or less in a straight line in most markets," said the analysts. “If these trends continue, then by 2050, many important tobacco markets will have gone to zero smoking.” But Citigroup stressed that these were “extremely long-term” trends.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/8246967/Smoking-could-disappear-by-2050-says-Citigroup.html
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