It’s official: Smoking does not make you happy. Research by the Peninsula Medical School in England found that smokers “experienced less pleasure and life satisfaction compaRed with non-smokers”, scienceblog.com reported yesterday. Dr Iain Lang and his team carried out a study involving 9176 individuals aged 50 and over. The studies categorised people as never-smokers, ex-smokers and current smokers, and used household wealth as an indicator for socio-economic position.” The blog quoted Dr Lang saying: “We found no evidence to support the claim that smoking is associated with pleasure, either in people from lower socio-economic groups or in the general population. “People may feel like they’re getting pleasure when they smoke a cigarette, but smokers are likely to be less happy overall — the pleasure they feel having a smoke comes only because they’re addicted.” He said there was a correlation between smoking and a “poorer quality of life” and encouraged smokers to quit if they wished to seek happiness.