THOUSANDS of households where people smoke in Barnsley would be lifted out of poverty if they quit, council and health officials have been told.
In a presentation to council, health and police officers, Kaye Mann, from the council’s public health team, said Barnsley is close to being the worst in the region for smoking with more than one in ten 15-year-olds lighting up and 17 per cent of pregnant women smoking.
She said 32 per cent of households with a smoker in Barnsley fall below the poverty line and if these smokers were to stub out their habit, 2,140 households would be lifted out of poverty.
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