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LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly half of British men surveyed would give up sex for six months in return for a 50-inch plasma TV, a survey -- perhaps unsurprisingly carried out for a firm selling televisions -- said on Friday.


The firm found 47 percent of men would give up sex for half a year, compared to just over a third of women.


A quarter of people said they would give up smoking, with roughly the same proportion willing to give up chocolate.