3 months ago 30th Jun 14:52
The smoking ban, has dramatically increased the number of people giving up the habit.
A survey suggests more than 400,000 people quit smoking as a result.
Researchers say this could potentially help save as many as 40,000 lives in the next 10 years.
Separate research suggests the ban may have helped people with lung disease stay out of hospital.
The ban on smoking in public places was designed principally to protect people from secondhand smoke.
However, as in Scotland, which introduced the ban a year earlier, there are signs that it is providing the motivation for people to try to give up.
A survey of 32,000 people, found that smoking fell by 5.5% in the nine months after the ban, compared with 1.6% in the previous nine months.
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