A massive 90 per cent of Australians describe smoking as a turn-off and 98.5 per cent of non-smokers would prefer their partner gave up smoking, according to a survey by RSVP.com.au and Nicotinell Gum.
More than 60 per cent of non-smokers say they would dump their partner if they took up smoking.
Some 67 per cent of smokers admit that quitting the habit would increase their chances of finding a date and 73 per cent thought that smoking made it harder to meet people.
And 85 per cent of smokers confessed that they wanted to quit the habit.
Andrew Phillips for Nicotinell, said: "Smokers are stuck in a frustrating catch-22: keep the habit and lose a date or lose the habit and keep a date," reports the Australian AP.
The NHS has recently announced the launch of a pill to help smokers quit. Will finding love be a big enough motivation for the UK's smoking singletons?
