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  "From a UK-wide survey, so the four nations are measured the same way. The devolved governments' own health surveys give their official measures of smoking, which differ from these.",
  "The ONS suspended the accreditation of every Annual Population Survey statistic in October 2024. The survey moved from face-to-face to telephone interviews in 2020, so the figures either side of that may not be comparable."
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