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One year on from the smoking ban in Bucks



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Published Date: 03 July 2008
ONE year on from the smoking ban, over half the smokers in Bucks who sought help to kick the habit have been successful
Buckinghamshire Stop Smoking Service (BSSS) has revealed that 56.7 per cent of smokers who sought help from the BSSS have managed to kick the habit in the last year as a result of support and advice from BSSS Stop Smoking advisor and Nicotine Replacement Therapy.

These local findings come as a new national survey is published today looking at the first year of Smokefree England. The report Smokefree England: One Year On summarises key findings from businesses, health workers and the public regarding the Smokefree legislation which was introduced one year ago today.

Val Mills, Buckinghamshire Stop Smoking Service Manager says "We are proud that we have got this far and have helped 1,864 people to quit smoking. The people who really deserve the credit though, are the smokers who worked so hard to quit. Now we're now looking towards the future with our new public brand identity questionnaire on the Buckinghamshire PCT website, designed to gain a better understanding of what makes smokers want to give up for good".

Over the past year, the Buckinghamshire Stop Smoking Service has delivered a range of support activities to help smokers to stub it out. These include running workplace support groups, street posters and billboards, public awareness raising activities with Wycombe Wanderers Football Club, developing an on-line support package for smokers who can't get to clinics, and taking the service out across the county on a convoy of Battle Buses complete with a troop of stop smoking advisors.

The latest efforts from the Buckinghamshire Stop Smoking team focuses on getting the community involved in a simple new online questionnaire on the Buckinghamshire PCT website, designed to provide feedback on what imagery and phrases works best for them when they are trying to quit smoking.

Do you think the smoking ban has been a success?

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  • Last Updated: 03 July 2008 10:28 AM
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Chuckles,

03/07/2008 15:00:29
This is a law based on nothing but lies and hatred. All the so called "health benefits" the government is spewing about arent truthful they are lies. If a lie is told often enough it becomes the truth. Or at least it is reported as such.

The real truth is that this ban has had effects which were all negative- all it has brought are business closures, social division and the loss of a historic icon- the British pub.
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Spanners,

06/07/2008 05:33:32
The figures I've seen suggest the Smoke Free England campaign is failing as it has in Scotland and as it has in Ireland (popularity of smoking up 3% since the ban).

My suggestion is journalists look into the (false)health claims, ask questions about the vast majority of (false) data from Govt and its agent provocateurs (NHS, ASH, Cancer Research UK etc) which are being included in Top 'junk science' lists for their falsification of data.

Cancer Research have refuesed to publish the basis of their claims for a 400,000 saved heart attacks with Scottish Health Ministers already hooked on lies in their study of a 17% reduction in heart attacks.

The Smoke Free England campaign also need to get a public mandate (democratic approval) for their crusade because as it stands Labour has no mandate or public support left from its Nanying and Bullying of this countries liberal people. We didn't support the total ban, the Labour manifesto has trashed bth their promise to give choice for smoking and EEC integration, and we still don't support giving up.

Madam Jeanne Claument is the oldest person that ever lived (121). Henry Allingham is Britains ldest man ever (112). Both life long smokers.

As the oldest people in the world tend to be smokers we also don't know what they're faffing on about. SMOKERS LIVE LONGEST. FACT.
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tug f wilson,

nottingham 07/07/2008 20:14:06
The smoking ban has been a complete disaster,you only have to look at the Pubs and Clubs that have been forced out of business and the thousands that are out of work and in a lot of cases out of home because of the ban,and with 30 more a week adding to the total it is time to say enough is enough,this Government did not have the right to bring in such a ban and we should all be shouting for an early election before they do even more damage to the country,we should all have a free choice,smoker and non smoker,that choice can only be made by the Landlord/Lady and Club owners,as far as giving up smoking is concered if you want to make something popular,BAN IT,cheers, Tug.
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