Social Tenants ‘Burn Through’ Rent Money To Maintain Smoking Habits

Social tenants with £2,000 a year smoking habits are burning through rent money and need help from housing associations to call it quits. Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) has released stats showing a third of those living in social housing smoke, which is twice the national average. ASH says that with financial motivations to quit smoking significantly more effective than health messages, that’s something social landlords can invest in. The research references the example of a single county – Shropshire –  where, if just 5% of social tenants stopped smoking it would save an amount equal to all the county’s social housing rent arrears. Read more on 24housing.

https://www.24housing.co.uk/news/social-tenants-burn-through-rent-money-to-maintain-smoking-habits/