Cigarette sales drop 7% in a month - The Times 21st August 2007

Cigarette sales fell by 6.9 per cent last month after the smoking ban was introduced in England and Wales. Smokers bought just over three billion cigarettes in Britain in the four weeks to July 28, down from the same period last year, according to the consumer research group AC Nielsen. Consumption had already been falling by about 2 per cent a year.

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