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Study: Health benefits of smoking ban could be lost, if the NHS is not better prepared

11-29-2006 · University of Bath

NHS services to help smokers quit could struggle to cope with an increase in the number of people wanting to give up before the introduction of a smoking ban next summer, a Department of Social & Policy Sciences analysis of the experience in Scotland has revealed.

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