Jump to full article: Daily Record and Sunday Mail (uk), 2010-02-07
Author: Mark Aitken, Sunday Mail
Intro: THE smoking ban has failed to persuade Scots to pack in the habit, we can reveal.
Government figures show the numbers of smokers are about the same as when the ban was introduced in 2006.
The statistics will shock politicians who believed the ban would lead to a huge reduction in the numbers of smokers.
At the time, it was suggested that 70 per cent of smokers wanted to give up.
The figures also show that Scotland has more smokers than any other area of the UK - despite the ban starting here first.
Last night, sources close to the government admitted there had been no significant decline in smoker numbers.
Simon Clark, director of the smokers' lobby group FOREST, said: "People have not given up smoking. They simply smoke elsewhere - in the street or at home.
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