Author Topic: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?  (Read 1596 times)

Offline loulou

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Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
« 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.

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Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
« Reply #1 on: June 21, 2008, 08:11:36 pm »
Money to burn.

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Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
« Reply #2 on: June 21, 2008, 10:55:17 pm »
The world's gone mad
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Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
« Reply #3 on: June 22, 2008, 09:00:13 am »
Give it to the pensioners and war heroes.
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Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2008, 06:58:35 pm »
Surely if they give up they will have an extra fiver a day to spend anyway?
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Re: Should people be paid for giving up smoking?
« Reply #5 on: June 22, 2008, 07:18:04 pm »
At least that.  I thought exactly the same.
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