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Chat => General => Topic started by: loulou on June 21, 2008, 03:38:35 pm

Title: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
Post by: loulou on June 21, 2008, 03:38:35 pm

Smokers in the poorest areas of Dundee are being offered £150 worth of groceries by the health service if they are able to give up cigarettes.

Participants in a 12-week scheme will be given £12.50 a week by NHS Tayside if a carbon monoxide breath test proves they have not been smoking.

The money will be credited onto an electronic card which cannot be used for cigarettes or alcohol.

Title: Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
Post by: paulham on June 21, 2008, 08:11:36 pm

Money to burn.

Title: Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
Post by: goldencup on June 21, 2008, 10:55:17 pm

The world's gone mad

Title: Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
Post by: oldspice on June 22, 2008, 09:00:13 am

Give it to the pensioners and war heroes.

Title: Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
Post by: smurfboy on June 22, 2008, 06:58:35 pm

Surely if they give up they will have an extra fiver a day to spend anyway?

Title: Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
Post by: goldencup on June 22, 2008, 07:18:04 pm

At least that.  I thought exactly the same.