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However, it is estimated that each year more than 13,000 people in Scotland die from smoking-related diseases, including lung cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke.
The Explanatory Notes clarify that this:
30. ... does not however change the rule that contracts and other obligations, as distinct from offers, generally continue to bind the estates of parties to such obligations who happen to die during their currency.
Scottish Parliament. (2025, October 2).
Those people in the system who do not know that they have hepatitis C are being discovered as and when they return for treatment, or if they die. The number of people concerned is unknown.
However, if we stop the process of bidding for more finance and finding an artistic director, the company will die. No, it will not. I believe that it will.
However, it is estimated that each year more than 13,000 people in Scotland die from smoking-related diseases, including lung cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke.Specific morbidity data related to obesity in Scotland is not held centrally.
Given that I do not foresee enormous confusion over the matter, it is not something that I want to die in a ditch over. I was merely curious as to whether there had been any conversation between the people in the Executive and their counterparts down south.
I am sure that the First Minister will agree that it is a matter of profound regret that 13,000 people die in Scotland each year as a result of smoking-related illness.
The controller said, with, I thought, a rather defensive air, "They die." Although that was a bit of journalism, the reality is that if priority-based dispatch is introduced, people will die.