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Report demands action from MPs to ‘end smoking within a generation’

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A new report launched by the cross-party All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health calls for all political parties to back a bold, fully funded strategy to make smoking obsolete within 20 years. The report – A Roadmap to a Smokefree Country – sets…

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