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Published Date: 09 October 2009
YOUNG people in the Lothians are now attempting to stop their friends smoking, a city charity has said.
ASH Scotland, which campaigns against tobacco, said there were a variety of projects led by young people to encourage contemporaries not to take up the habit.

Speaking after the organisation's AGM, chief executive Sheila Duffy said: "I am delighted to see this new development.

In Scotland 49,000 smokers quit or die every year. They are replaced by 15,000 young people who take up the habit every year.

"So it is great to see young people taking an interest."





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  • Last Updated: 09 October 2009 11:19 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 09/10/2009 12:45:45
Why are we giving this subversive organisation column inches?

I am sick and fed up to the back teeth with their incessant lies. Not only that, they are starting to involve our kids in their lies now and that is absolutely unacceptable.

And why are the Scottich Government providing 90% of their funding? Why should us taxpayers pay for liars and propagandists?
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Arminius,

Bei Uelzen 09/10/2009 23:38:49
#1 - "I am sick and fed up to the back teeth with their incessant lies" - Strange, I was thinking the same about your rants. Nobody is stopping you smoking (so long as you show the proper consideration and smoke where you are permitted to do so) but anything which discourages people from taking up smoking in the first place is a good thing. Not only is smoking expensive, it is bad for the health no matter what you and your fellow gaspers delude yourselves into believing.
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David from New Mills,

Fug Free Pleasantville, U.K. 11/10/2009 16:37:47
#1, petrol bonce.
If p.b. doesn't care for ASH's message, he's always free to soak up another perspective on freedom2choose.info. He may well find their disjointed ramblings more to his taste.

 

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