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Woman tells of heartache of losing mum to lung cancer to encourage smokers to quit

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A West Lothian woman who lost her mum to lung cancer is urging people to join the campaign to stub out smoking.Kelsey MacKay is signing Cancer Research UK’s Smokefree UK petition after losing her own mum Christine Livingstone to the disease.New analysis by the charity estimates that tobacco causes the death of one person every 40 minutes in Scotland.And heartbroken mum-of-two Kelsey has seen first-hand the devastating impact of smoking.Her mum Christine smoked all her adult life and was just 52 when she died from lung cancer at St John’s Hospital in 2013.Now Kelsey, who is mum to Freya, seven, and Rio, four, is supporting SmokefreeUK as she’s determined future generations will grow up in a healthier Scotland where tobacco no longer claims lives.Kelsey (31), who stays in Armadale, said: “I miss my mum every day and it breaks my heart that she didn’t live long enough to meet my own children.“My mum was my best friend.

She loved my brother and me, working hard to give us everything she could in life. I was just 21 when mum died and my brother Callan was 19.

Overnight we both had to grow up and stand on our own feet financially too.“I wish things could have turned out differently, I wish we’d had more time, more years, more chances to make memories with my mum.

But looking back, mum grew up in a Scotland where so many people smoked. Mum smoked around 40 cigarettes a day. And her own mum smoked heavily, dying from a smoking related illness.“My duty to my children is to help break that cycle so they can look ahead to a healthy future.

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