hi carol i was hesitant to reply to this post ,but there is another side to this ,my husband was quite a heavy smoker ,and it was thought at first he had MULTI INFARCT DEMENTIA, the doc and all the medical people wanted him to stop smocking ,it made sense to me ,but not to my husband ,who use to say it was the only pleasure he had ,however ,being on the lowest level of allowances ,there was no way we could afford the £35 that they cost ,he was aware that we could not afford them but was not well pleased ,we ,or i ,put 10 aday out .not in sight ,so he had to get up for one every time ,this worked and every few weeks i took one away ,by the time he was down to three he was not bothering ,wich was a good thing as by now he was burning his mouth trying to light them ,and i was finding smouldering cigs on the carpet or he was dropping them down the chair ,NOT A GOOD IDEA ,now i would have given him the world ,and bought him a huge telly ,a lovely reclining chair and an electric memory foam bed ,all out off the small savings we had ,but i dont regret cutting the cigs out ,though i sometimes felt guilty of depriving him of this one thing ,i know it was for the best ,ANGELA