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Tayside and Central | Experts discuss smoke-free homes 

Jump to full article: BBC Online, 2007-10-31

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Details of a highly regarded initiative to reduce smoking in the home are being discussed at a seminar in Dundee.

Anti-smoking campaigners from across the east of Scotland are meeting to discuss how to reduce tobacco use.

Ways of preventing children accessing cigarettes were also on the agenda at the conference, which was organised by ASH Scotland.

The campaign group said almost a quarter of deaths in Scotland every year were smoking-related.

Representatives from the NHS, councils and the voluntary sector in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Tayside, Forth Valley, Fife and West Lothian were attending the meeting.

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