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Smokers in Dundee will be offered 12.50 pounds per week to quit
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Smokers in deprived parts of the city of Dundee areto be paid to kick the habit in an initiative between public health organizations, municipal authorities and the Scottish government.
The pilot scheme to be tried in Dundee, north of Edinburgh, will see smokers offered 12.50 pounds per week to quit. Health bosses hope that 900 smokers will give up as a result in the next two years.
The money will be credited onto an electronic card, which they can redeem at their local supermarket for fresh food and other groceries, but not cigarettes and alcohol, local health body NHS said.
The money will be available for up to 12 weeks, with participants receiving nicotine replacement therapy through their local pharmacy, where they will also undergo weekly carbon monoxide tests to prove they have not succumbed.
If successful, the scheme could be rolled out across Scotland, which has high instances of coronary heart disease and cancer linked to smoking and poor diet, particularly in the "central belt" between Edinburgh and Glasgow.
The Scottish government in Edinburgh banned smoking in public places such as pubs and restaurants, in March 2006.
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英國(guó)蘇格蘭敦提市目前在該市貧民區(qū)推廣了一項(xiàng)新的戒煙計(jì)劃，戒煙者將獲得現(xiàn)金獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)。這項(xiàng)計(jì)劃由英國(guó)公共衛(wèi)生機(jī)構(gòu)和蘇格蘭敦提市政府共同推出。
愛丁堡北部城市敦提啟動(dòng)的這項(xiàng)試點(diǎn)計(jì)劃為準(zhǔn)備戒煙的人每周提供12.5英鎊的獎(jiǎng)金。公共衛(wèi)生官員希望在接下來的兩年間能有900位煙民戒掉煙癮。
當(dāng)?shù)貒?guó)民健康保險(xiǎn)服務(wù)部表示，獎(jiǎng)金將被打到一張電子卡上，戒煙者可以用卡消費(fèi)，在超市里購買新鮮食物或者其他雜物，但是不能用于購買煙酒。
整個(gè)獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)計(jì)劃將持續(xù)12周。在此期間，戒煙者還要在當(dāng)?shù)卦\所接受“尼古丁替代物”的治療，鞏固戒煙成果。他們還必須一周接受一次“一氧化碳測(cè)試”，以證實(shí)自己在這一周內(nèi)確實(shí)沒有再吸煙。
如果這一獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)計(jì)劃獲得成效，政府將在整個(gè)蘇格蘭地區(qū)推廣。在蘇格蘭地區(qū)，尤其是愛丁堡和格拉斯哥這一“中心地帶”，居民們患冠心病和癌癥的幾率比其他地區(qū)更高，而這些病癥的元兇之一就是尼古丁。
蘇格蘭政府自2006年3月起就在酒吧、餐廳等公共場(chǎng)所實(shí)行禁煙。
（英語點(diǎn)津Celene編輯）
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