Leith grandmother battling cancer backs ban on cigarette sales to young

Edinburgh Evening News

Leith grandmother Louise McGregor, who is battling lung cancer, speaks of her own experience and backs UK Government plans to ban cigarette sales to younger generations.  From Cancer Research UK.

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00:00Yeah, well I started smoking when I was 14. Like I suppose everyone back then, they were doing it

00:07and you just wanted to try it. Be like, you know, I'm smoking and I'm older and all that nonsense

00:16and then, yeah, you never think you're going to get addicted to it. Never ever did I think.

00:22I can remember like it was yesterday, actually taking that first cigarette and that's what set

00:28the road for me to be still smoking 50 years on. Deep, deep regret. You know, I didn't need to do

00:38that cigarette, didn't need to take that first cigarette but I did. I think the more that's out

00:45there to make young people realise how dangerous and addictive, addictive and dangerous it is,

00:54you know, and what you can occur with your health through smoking. All I was thinking about was,

01:00oh I'm going to be in with my friends and, you know, they're smoking so why shouldn't I smoke?

01:05You know, and that's basically all it was. It was just to be in the crowd, you know,

01:12and here I am, 57, smoked all these years and the lung cancer that I've got is caused by smoking.

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