Give her a fresh, flavoured kiss!

Over a third of Britons would prefer a minty kiss (38 per cent), with a fifth (20 per cent) preferring to get fruity when locking lips – especially on Valentine’s Day. A popular song may have influenced the 11 per cent of men who declared cherry or other flavour chap stick their favourite flavour when smooching.

The charity has issued the findings to give another incentive to the 63 per cent of British smokers who wish to kiss their habit goodbye. Over half the nation (57 per cent) would be put off kissing by smokers’ breath (56 per cent of men and 58 per cent of women) and so the charity believes not only would smokers improve their health by quitting but potentially their love lives.

Only morning breath was more unpopular than tobacco breath with 59 per cent of people stating it would put them off. Anyone booking a romantic dinner this weekend may like to consider that garlic and onion were the third least liked flavour when kissing someone (51 per cent)

Rachel Martin, from the No Smoking Day charity says: “Everyone has their own reasons for quitting and, as over a quarter of single people in the UK smoke, we felt a chance to enhance their love life may be the incentive they need to kiss their smoking habit goodbye.”