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Patients admitted to a Nottingham hospital are being encouraged to kick the habit by specialist stop smoking advisors.Smokers will be offered help – including nicotine therapies and counselling – while being treated at the City Hospital, in a move which health experts say "makes perfect sense".It is hoped that targeting people while they are being treated for illnesses could help tackle the major health inequalities across the city – with half of early deaths in...