Smoking ban helps people quit
- Published: 14 July 2008 16:54
- Last Updated: 14 July 2008 16:54
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The smoking ban in England may have helped around 400,000 people to quit, according to Cancer Research UK who interviewed over 32,000 people.
Smoking declined by 1.6% in the nine months before the ban came into force in July 2007, compared with 5.5% in the following nine months, the UK national smoking cessation conference in Birmingham heard last week.
Researchers said this could prevent around 40,000 deaths over the next 10 years.
Professor Robert West, Cancer Research UK's director of tobacco studies, said: 'I never expected such a dramatic impact.'
