“Nobody told me until I became addicted”

VERA TIGHE started smoking when she was 12 years of age because all the film stars did it.

“Nobody told me until I became addicted”

Her first cigarette made her sick but that did not stop her having a second straight after.

"I never drank alcohol or took drugs because I knew they were bad. Nobody told us that smoking was dangerous," said the 61-year-old mother of four grown-up children from Donaghmede, Dublin.

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