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People want to take responsibility
People want to take responsibility for their own health outside the
NHS as well as within it.They have the right to expect help from government.
The killer diseases of the heart and the many forms of cancer
are often the product of poor diet, lack of exercise and above all smoking.
By 2010 we aim to reduce deaths from coronary heart disease and
strokes by 40 per cent from 1997. And we want death rates from cancer
to be cut by 20 per cent.