E-cigarettes, craft beer and Spotify have been added to the basket of goods and services used to calculate UK inflation.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) released its annual review of the shopping basket items that make up its inflation calculations.
E-cigarettes have been added as a substantial number of smokers have switched to them, often in a bid to quit the habit, according to the ONS.
Speciality beers have also been introduced as these products are seeing an increase in both spending and the shelf space devoted to them.
Notably, sat navs have been removed because many motorists now use their smartphones to navigate or cars already have built-in devices.
With the decline in popularity of traditional media, music streaming services - such as Spotify - are being included for the first time, as are online console computer games subscriptions and headphones.
Other changes include the inclusion of protein powders, used by many gym-goers, and melons and sweet potatoes.
Meanwhile, foreign exchange commissions and yoghurt drinks are being removed.
The ONS uses the items in the basket of goods and services to calculate consumer price inflation.
There are currently 703 items that make up the CPI basket of goods and services, of which 13 are new this year.
Eight items have been removed, and 16 updated.
The ONS collects around 110,000 individual prices each month from 20,000 shops across the UK, as well as a further 70,000 prices online.
The "weight" of each item - its relative importance in calculating CPI - is based on survey evidence of people's spending gathered by the ONS and commercial market research.
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