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• 1.25 Million Lives Could be Saved if Smokers Quit for Good 

Figures released today, No Smoking Day, reveal that one in five smokers (20 per cent) say that they will try to, or definitely stop smoking when the UK goes completely smokefree from July 1st. If every smoker who stopped was successful the number of lives saved would be 1.25 million. That's equivalent to nobody dying in England and Wales for 2 years!(1)

No Smoking Day, the charity behind today's campaign commissioned a YouGov survey on public awareness of the incoming ban on smoking in enclosed public places and workplaces. The survey showed that 20 per cent of smokers plan to make a quit attempt as England goes smokefree.

Ben Youdan, Chief Executive of No Smoking Day, which runs the annual health awareness campaign said: '"No Smoking Day is the ideal opportunity to stop smoking before Smokefree comes into place this summer. More than two-thirds of smokers say they want to quit smoking and should seek advice and support from stop smoking services to do that.

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