Getting ready to pucker up this Valentine’s weekend? Best to get minty fresh or have a piece of fruit, avoid mornings and smoking, according to a new survey about kissing from the No Smoking Day charity of the UK.

Over a third of respondents to a survey in the UK have said they would prefer a minty kiss (38%), with a fifth (20%) preferring to get fruity when locking lips. A popular song may have influenced the 11% of men who declared cherry or other flavour chap stick their favourite flavour when smooching.

The findings were issued to give another incentive to smokers who wish to kiss their habit goodbye. Over half of respondents (57%) said they would be put off kissing by smokers’ breath (56% of men and 58% of women).

Only morning breath was more unpopular than tobacco breath with 59% 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%)

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.’