According to a new report there will be no smokers in just thirty years’ time despite there currently being 7.4 million.

The researchers employed by tobacco firm Philip Morris claimed the final stronghold for smoking will be in Derby – where the nation’s last cig will be stumped out.

The first smoke free cities will be Bristol by 2024, followed by York and Wokingham, Berkshire, in 2026, the report claimed.

Researchers based their conclusion on the current decline in smoking – attributed to the popularity of vape and e-cigarette products.

Analysts Frontier Economics found almost a third of British adults smoked in 1990, but that figure is now just 15 per cent. 

Director of Corporate Affairs Mark MacGregor said: “There are more alternative options than ever to help people give up cigarettes for good.” 

Philip Morris is increasing its focus on smoke-free products. 

Smoking has changed dramatically in Britain after the first ban on smoking in public places came into force in July 2007.

Since then, in 2015, the UK Government made it illegal to have cigarettes on show on the shelf in shops.

Tax hikes ahem also dramatically increased the price of a packet and the sale of packets of ten were banned in 2017. By 2020 there will be no menthol flavoured cigarettes on sale in the UK.

However, in some of the nation’s most deprived areas smokers are carrying on.

Around 22 per cent of people in Kingston upon Hull, Blackpool and North Lincolnshire still smoke.

Philip Morris is behind the IQOS machine which is on sale in the UK.

It is a smoking alternative device which heats the tobacco just enough to release a flavorful nicotine-containing tobacco vapor but without burning the tobacco.

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