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Do you feel more special if you spoon leaf tea into a china cup?
Or is a mug of builder's tea just the cuppa for you?
Either way here in Kent 74 per cent of people surveyed said they found it comforting and calming to make a cuppa in a crisis.
We spoke to master blender Alex Probin from Blend for Friends Limited and psychologist Dr Malcolm Cross from City University London:
Audio: Alex Probin of Blend for Friends