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In your submission, under the heading "International Perspective", you say that, in Glasgow,"fewer people a year would die of heart disease, respiratory disease and cancer",and you refer to other people's work.
On average, people are on incapacity benefit for nine years and, once they get past three years, they die or retire on it. That is more of a social and a demographic issue than a financial one.
It is quite scandalous that we will soon commemorate armistice Sunday when we know that a drop in temperature—one point on the thermometer— means that 800 old people in Scotland will die, cold and in misery. They are the little brothers and sisters of that great ghost army.
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Date published:
28 February 2024
Millions of people worldwide and more than 13,000 people a year in Scotland die prematurely because of smoking. The scale of the problem is immense and so is the importance of supporting the bill that is before us today.
The team must be led by a Government that has a seat at the top table. Therefore, it is necessary to end this farce and ensure that longer-term planning is brought in.
I hope that she might instruct her party to remove from its website the headline, "Justice two convenor refuses to support management of offenders bill."
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