Tim Dower: Whatever gets people to not start smoking is a good thing

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Dec 9, 2021 · 2m

Smoking.

I'd have been about 14 or 15 when I first started smoking, even back then we knew it wasn't good for us and maybe that's part of why we did it.

It was about breaking the rules, being a bit of a rebel.

In hindsight, it was the dumbest thing I ever did.

It's become an extremely expensive bad habit too and the year on year increases in excise duty have obviously helped more of us become ex-smokers.

It is incredibly hard to stop, you get an almost instant chemical addiction and then very quickly an addiction to rituals and habits.

So it stands to reason that the fewer of us who take it…