By Belinda Ryan, local democracy reporter
Cheshire East Council is considering paying people hundreds of pounds to quit smoking.
It could launch a pilot scheme which would see the general population offered up to £200 to quit and pregnant women offered £400.
A Nantwich couple who have given up cigarettes after smoking for 100 years between them are urging others to quit.
We revealed earlier this year how Maureen and William Gooder put a century of tobacco addiction behind them after taking part in a support programme.
A married couple from Nantwich has thanked a specialist hospital team for helping them quit cigarettes – after more than 100 years of smoking between them!
Maureen Gooder, 69, started smoking at 19 and has spent the last 50 years, regularly smoking 17 cigarettes a day.
Firefighters have warned of the dangers of smoking indoors after two more South Cheshire deaths in fires caused by cigarettes.
Five people have no died in the area since February, including an elderly couple in Nantwich.
An investigation into a fire which killed a Nantwich couple has found it was started by discarded smoking materials.
Beryl Cooper, 80, and Peter Cooper, 82, were found unresponsive at their bungalow on Mount Close in Nantwich in February.
Signs are being erected in all Nantwich play areas in a bid to discourage people from smoking. They will promote a new voluntary “Play Smokefree” code in all Cheshire East Council run playgrounds.
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