More than 400 thousand people stopped smoking .. After it was banned in Britain

A study conducted in Britain to ban smoking in public places significantly raise the number of people who have given up the smoking habit.
The study indicates that more than 400 thousand people have stopped smoking because of smoking bans in public places.
Another study says that the ban on smoking in public places has helped people with lung disease to survive outside the hospital.
The main objective of the resolution (which came into force last year) is to set aside those who do not smoke the consequences of involuntary smoking.
But it seems that he had paid a number of smokers in England as in Scotland (where he entered into force two years ago) to think about giving up smoking.
The study, conducted on 32 thousand people that smoking fell by 5.5 per cent during the nine months that followed the entry into force of the ban, compared with 1.6 per cent during the nine months preceding the decision.
Said Professor Robert West, who headed the research team of the Research Unit in health behavior, he did not expect this effect is clear to the ban.
And urged the body fight cancer British funded this study, Cancer Research UK on the need to maintain this momentum.
Said Jane King, director of tobacco control in this body: "The results show that the anti-smoking laws that encourage people to quit the habit."
Some reports indicate that sales of cigarettes decreased significantly during the past year, falling by more than 1.93 billion cigarettes in England, and 220 thousand in Scotland.

 BBC