Stop smoking: save money and health

Published on Tuesday 27 December 2011 00:00

A 20-A-DAY smoker could save at least £2,500 a year and improve their health by giving up cigarettes, according to an anti-smoking charity.

ASH Scotland estimated the saving as a Scottish Health Survey study revealed that 69 per cent of smokers want to give up.

The survey carried out by the Scottish Government covered all aspects of public health, and interviewed more than 9,000 people on their physical fitness, mental health and alcohol and cigarette consumption.

Public health minister Michael Matheson has urged smokers to make 2012 the year they quit for good, and pointed to the services within the NHS which can help.

Mr Matheson said: “It’s estimated that around a quarter of all deaths in Scotland are attributable to smoking.

“We must therefore do all we can to emphasise the many benefits – both health and financial – of stopping smoking.”

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DavidfromNewMills

Monday, January 9, 2012 at 01:29 PM

See F2S hero A. W.T. has been a naughty boy in his local Tesco's. Perhaps he needed to save some money towards his ciggie allowance? Trust charlot enjoyed " Timeshift: The Smoking Years" on BBC4.

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DavidfromNewMills

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 07:05 PM

Charlie boy seems to have gone off in the sulks, but I would confirm that I've not given him any thought in my visits to comfortable fug free Pleasantville pubs this week. Perhaps he and his F2S chums would care to watch " Timeshift: The Smoking Years" on BBC4 at 9.00 to-night. Perhaps they may just learn something.

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DavidfromNewMills

Monday, January 2, 2012 at 10:40 PM

#40, chaswin. As the wassock wishes, but one thing I do know is that, the next time I'm relaxing in a fug free pub, the last person I'll be thinking of is a F2S loser. Cheers! Selfish peasant from fug free Pleasantville.

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Charles11

Monday, January 2, 2012 at 07:27 PM

The peasant is delighted that thousands of pub have closed, tens of thousands of staff have lost their jobs, people living near pubs have to endure extra noise and more litter', just so that the selfish peasant doesn't have to endure a little bit of harmless cigarette smoke.

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DavidfromNewMills

Monday, January 2, 2012 at 02:00 PM

#38, chaswin. So just because the smoker couldn't do without his fix, he thought it acceptable to puff his obnoxious fumes anywhere, to the detriment of those in the vicinity. Charlie really is a selfish inconsideratge pathetic wassock. Perhaps he could toddle along to some of his local hostelries, and support the landlords and their staff that he's always feigning sympathy for. After all, I'm doing my bit, rather just whingeing. Pleasant peasant David from fug free Pleasantville.

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Charles11

Monday, January 2, 2012 at 01:29 PM

So just because your don't like cigarette smoke you think it was worth thousands of pub closures, tens of thousands of staff made unemployed, extra noise and more litter! You are a.real selfish, pathetic peasant.

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DavidfromNewMills

Monday, January 2, 2012 at 12:32 PM

#36, chaswin. Dead easy, old chum. Tens of thousands of pubs, and ALL of them gloriously fug free, as inconsiderate smokers are now outside. If some of them are noisy and or litter louts, that is purely a matter of their upbringing, or lack of it. Glad he managed to avoid his usual errors of spelling and syntax in his latest effort.

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Charles11

Monday, January 2, 2012 at 08:12 AM

Thousands of pub closures, tens of thousands of staff made unemployed, extra noise and more litter. How can you say that the smoking BAN has been ''overwhelmingly successful'?

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DavidfromNewMills

Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 10:52 PM

#3334, chaswin. The charlie was right to correct his contention that "smoking has been ''overwhelmingly successful'". If only if he were to go easy on the Lanliq and El Dorado, he might drop less clangers. Why did he simply carelessly reword his #30 and 31? Has he run out of ( fresh ) ideas?

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Charles11

Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 09:57 PM

#33 should read: Pub closures, staff made unemployed, extra noise and more litter. How can you say that the smoking BAN has been ''overwhelmingly successful'?

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Charles11

Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 09:30 PM

Pub closures, staff made unemployed, extra noise and more litter. How can you say that the smoking has been ''overwhelmingly successful'?

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DavidfromNewMills

Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 08:59 PM

#3031, chaswin. Only thoughtless people cause extra noise and litter. If the wassock is so concerned about pubs and the welfare of tens of theouands (sic) of staff , let him give them his custom. "They're waiting for your call now."

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Charles11

Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 07:55 PM

Thousands of pubs closed and tens of theouands of staff made unemployed. How can the peasant call that 'overwhelmingly successful'?

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Charles11

Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 07:43 PM

Doesn't the peasant know that the smoking ban has caused extra noise and extra litter? People living near pubs constantly complain about all the noise and litter. No lives have been saved because of the ban. How can the peasant call that 'overwhelmingly successful'?

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DavidfromNewMills

Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 06:59 PM

#28, chaswin. What the wassock fails to appreciate, or perhaps recognise, is that the legislation introducing what he refers to as part prohibiton (sic) has been overwhelmingly successful for almost six years in Scotland, and four and a half in England. But then what would a simple peasant from rural Pleasantville know? Still, he can always continue to rub his lucky rabbit's paw, and hope for a miracle. If that fails, there's always the Lanliq.

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