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After four deaths, I had to quit cigs 

An Ulsterman who lost his dad, brother and two sisters to lung cancer has told how he had finally given up cigarettes - 54 years after he first started smoking.

Eddie Millen, from west Belfast, took up smoking at just eight years old.

At one point the 62-year- old was smoking 60 a day.

Now, on No Smoking Day he is warning young people to kick a habit which he brands "crazy".

"If my story helps even one person to give up cigarettes, then I'll feel that I have achieved something," he said.

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