One in 10 smokers are "desperate" to give up, a poll suggests. A survey, conducted on behalf of the British Heart Foundation's 30th annual No Smoki...

While the amount of people who smoke had been going steadily down since the fifties, in the last six years that decline has stalled. Although nearly two out of three want to quit and one in ten tell us they're 'desperate' to get rid of their addiction, around 20% of the UK still smoke.

Today is No Smoking Day, and we at the British Heart Foundation are warning of the dangers of shisha because new research shows widespread ignorance of the harm it can cause along with a dramatic rise in the number of shisha bars in the UK.

According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), 20% of the British population consider themselves as a smoker. Despite this being lower tha...