A survey carried out by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reveals a difference in smoking and drinking habits between managers and professionals and those in manual jobs.

The results in the annual report ‘Smoking and drinking among adults, 2008 (the General Lifestyle Survey)’ reveal that adults in households classified as ‘managerial and professional’ drank more alcohol than ‘routine and manual’ households — 13.8 units compared with 10.6 units as a weekly average.

Furthermore, around a fifth (19%) of people in managerial and professional households had an alcoholic drink on five or more days in the week before they were surveyed. In routine and manual households this was much lower at 11%.

In contrast to the drinking figures, smoking was twice as common in households classified as routine and manual (29% of adults smoked cigarettes) as it is in managerial and professional households (14% of adults).

And as it’s lunchtime, we’re off to the pub for a lemonade and mango juice chaser, huddled outside with 20 fags.