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Nobody is arguing that they should be given a diet of bread and water or that they should be detained in leg irons; they have to be treated with dignity and respect.
In the longer term, their contribution to that £750 million gap being filled will relate to how companies invest in what enables them to make products for the markets. The ITIs' goal is to provide a leg-up for companies to start to make such investments.
We made it clear that we want an improvement in journey times on the Scottish leg of the east coast main line. How that is delivered is up to the rail industry, which should price it accordingly.
This is not just about people who die of lung cancer, heart disease or stroke—it is about people who lose legs through gangrene. We must take cognisance of that and of the other effects of smoking, which are not so widely publicised.
However, we need to ensure that all the voices are heard and that all three legs of the sustainable development stool are represented so that we have a nice steady stool, not a shooglie one.
Secondly, it gives the patient the opportunity to be in control of the medicines that they are taking. If you break your leg and go into hospital, you are sometimes treated as if you have broken your head, and your medicines are taken away from you.