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Old 28-10-2005, 13:15   #400
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Re: smoking and the pub

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Originally Posted by SlackDad
Good news about the giving up rates in New York and ireland, but what about the take-up rates. Sometimes making something more socially undesiarble only serves to increase its attractiveness to those it is specifically targeted at. I'm thinking of rebelling teenagers for instance.
That's a very good question, but given the highly-charged nature of the public debate in England this past week, I suspect if the take-up rate had increased, someone somewhere would have quoted the statistic by now in defence of their position.
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