City of Dundee in Scotland to pay people to stop smoking
Posted on June 24, 2008 by DFHS Article Team
A city in Scotland is offering people money for groceries as an incentive for them to stop smoking.
The health authority in Dundee will give smokers from poor parts of the city $25 a week to buy fresh food if they take weekly tests to prove they have not started smoking again.
Amanda Sandford from the anti-smoking campaign group Ash welcomed the new scheme.
"We think it could really help those particularly disadvantaged people who find it really hard to quit – having this sort of extra incentive given to them in the form of vouchers, which they can exchange for food," she said.
"Given that food prices are rising, the people on low income really have to count for every single penny.
"So having a scheme where they are rewarded for quitting smoking, I think could work."
- BBC
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