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The UK currently has one of the lowest smoking rates in Europe after Sweden and Norway. (Scroll down this page to see the world smoking rates by country: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ion_per_capita)Originally Posted by renaissance12
The UK smoking rate continues to fall each year and is currently at an all time low -
https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov...its-a-new-low/
https://www.theguardian.com/society/...o-lowest-level
- which is good as nobody wants yellow smokers teeth, bad chimney breath, smelly clothes, skin, and hair, premature ageing and cancers, etc.
In 2018 a pack of 20 fags/cancer sticks in the UK cost approximately ten quid. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/603731...-pack-cost-uk/ Ten pounds is about eleven euros. (£10.40 = 11.50 euros.)
Smokers cost taxpayers on the NHS, so they're taxed extra on packets of fags (coffin nails) in order to fund their healthcare costs.
We have strict smoking bans in all public venues and strict tobacco sale laws (cigarettes aren't allowed to be advertised or shown on display in shops, etc,) combined with high costs on fags. We also have free counselling and free help centres and a range of free devices on the NHS to help people to quit.
Which regions/boroughs of LDN and which regions/counties of the countryside did you visit - and what year?
Certain desirable living areas of the countryside (such as the beautiful and luxurious cottages in the much desired and serene Cotswolds region) can also be expensive. The English Riviera also has some expensive properties. It depends on which region of London and which region of the countryside areas you're comparing.
Canford Cliffs and Sandbanks in my original home county of Dorset are also expensive areas. I remember it was expensive in those regions when I was a child living in Dorset. There used to be an area there called 'Millionaires Row' in Dorset where the ex Beatles star Ringo Starr had purchased a home.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ge...ZnQSU6cNYKnzM:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?biw=...CUa-zFpyAIWtM:
There's also some very large properties with private swimming pools across countryside areas in Hampshire and Surrey and Kent too, and massive private country estate mansions with acres of land for the extremely wealthy, along with countryside palaces and castle homes too where aristocratic Lords and Barons and Dukes live.
Now it's amongst the most expensive places to live in the UK and is dubbed as the 'UK Monte Carlo.'
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when they were ruled by the Danelaw. The Yorkshire folk are very proud of their Viking ancestry and they have a Jorvik Viking Centre there which is a popular cultural learning place for visitors to York. 
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