In Britain, a lot of money has been put into smoking cessation services, but the number of people making use of them has not increased. Officials feel that helping smokers has become more difficult and that doing something to help these services would just be a waste of money.
Out of the 671,259 people who had set themselves a quit date in one program, only half managed to stay off cigarettes for more than four weeks.
Nearly 21 percent more money was spent on stop services in 2008/2009 than in the previous year, while there was a 1 percent drop in the number of people using the services.
Thousands of dollars are spent on banning smoking, and there are fewer smokers than there were in the past, and it cannot be expected for numbers to increase. If money is being spent on banning tobacco the same should be done for helping smokers quit… but only if they want to quit. It should be a choice, after all.
[Via: Telegraph.co.uk]
