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By David Newble
Thursday, September 27, 2012
SMOKERS on the Island are being asked to quit for 28 days next month in the first mass quit attempt launched by the Department of Health.
Stoptober is supported by NHS Isle of Wight, doctors and the Chamber Health Stop Smoking Service, which will be out and about in Ryde town centre on Tuesdays and Newport town centre on Wednesdays during the month.
For more information about the campaign, visit www.smokefree.nhs.uk/Stoptober or contact your GP or Chamber Health on 01983 554545.
Reporter: davidn@iwcpmail.co.uk
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by Mike Crowe
27th September 2012, at 17:41:43
""Now watch the smokers defend their stup ..........?"Now watch the smokers defend their stupid smokers defend their addiction. I invite just ONE smoker to agree with me.Pigs will fly:-)
27th September 2012, at 17:39:33
""If I want to smoke, I will""""It ain't illegal to smoke"""My body. I will do what I want to do with it""""My money. I will spend it on what I want""""Whose paying the tax to pay for the NHS? What will happen to the NHS if I stop smoking? It will collapse""....There are none so blind ...........................................................Very many thanks to the smokers who pay the tax to enable me to have some superb surgery at St Mary's Hospital as recent as yesterday when an x-ray proved I am in fine fettle, despite exposure to Asbestos over 50 years ago. Of course being a non smoker has helped....Now watch the smokers defend their stup
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