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Less than one-quarter of Scots population smokes

More than 200,000 Scots have quit smoking in the past 10 years as the total proportion of the population to regularly light up dropped to below one-quarter for the first time.

 

It puts Scotland, which banned smoking in public places in March 2006, on a par with countries such as Albania and Paraguay and means that it has a smaller proportion of smokers than Greece, China, France, Spain and Finland.