Latest news in Yorkshire: April 02, 2019 06:01:30 PM
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Almost £500,000 is to be spent on helping people stop smoking in
Barnsley.
Senior councillors have approved spending of up to £450,000 on an
improved new stop smoking service in the town, intended as an answer to
the town’s high level of tobacco users.
The local authority says work still needs to be done to help smokers who
want to quit and an existing contract, currently provided by an NHS
trust, comes to an end later this year.
Rather than renewing that, the council says it wants to expand the work
done to provide increased support to help the people who need it the
most.
Barnsley still has one of the highest rates of adult smoking in the
country at around one in six or 18.2%.
Successful schemes in the town have included making play areas in parks
and some of the town centre voluntary smoke free areas, an idea now
being expanded to the areas around school gates.===================
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News source: bbc.co.uk