His only concession to social pressures is to give up smoking, at least in public.

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Support and advice is available on the NHS if people want to give up smoking, she said.

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Just as many people would like to give up smoking (tomorrow), so they want to save (tomorrow).

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Several areas have used financial incentives to get people to give up smoking - particularly among pregnant women and new mothers.

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The study published in the latest issue of the British Dental Journal urges dentists and other surgery staff to encourage patients to give up smoking.

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As well as issuing fines, the enforcement officers will also hand out health board information to offenders on how to give up smoking and where cessation clinics can be found.

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According to research in more than one million women, those who give up smoking by the age of 30 will almost completely avoid the risks of dying early from tobacco-related diseases.

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He was trying to give up pipe-smoking.

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It recently gave the workforce at Land Rover's Solihull plant an ultimatum: adopt modern, flexible working practices and give up old habits such as eating and smoking on the job, or the factory closes.

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Nick knows that his arguments in favor of smoking are rubbish, but he enjoys the game of spin too much to give it up.

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