Full or partial smoking bans would reduce secondhand smoke drifting between apartments, prevent cigarette-related fires, and even help smokers quit, they argue.

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Then, in 1997, new studies showed that buproprion could help smokers quit.

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Yet the new policy guidelines barely tinker with lethal, addictive cigarettes while effectively banning products that have been shown to help smokers quit.

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The Ash Scotland chief executive called for cash to be put into services to help smokers quit and also said tobacco duty should be increased.

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The time is long past when that approach should have evolved, to help smokers get the help they need to quit the death-dealing cigarette.

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It is time we took a more compassionate approach and gave smokers more tools to help them reduce their risk and quit cigarettes.

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In the US some smokers are already being prescribed a drug, Zyban, to help them quit.

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