End tobacco smoking by 2025?
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Could we end the smoking of tobacco in the Uk within a generation. On first glance it looks like one of those utterly grandiose targets that New Labour used to launch (and re-launch) such as abolishing Child Poverty by 2020. But this ultra-ambitious target comes from the Royal College of Physicians who argue that radical measures are needed to curb smoking. They argue that “The primary objective of regulation of smoked tobacco should be to make smoking and smoked tobacco products as unappealing, unattractive, unaffordable and unavailable as possible, as quickly as possible.”
The measures include:
Increase the tax on tobacco by 10% every year
License tobacco retailers and prohibit the sale of smoked tobacco in premises where children are admitted
Crack down on tobacco smuggling, and apply Class A drug penalties for tobacco smuggling and under-age sale
Encourage sale of low cost single day nicotine packs, available from any retail outlet
Permanently exempt medicinal nicotine from VAT
Provide free medicinal nicotine for all smokers on the NHS, not just those on a smoking cessation programme
What do you think?
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