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Making the case for local tobacco control

Posted by: Kevin Fenton, Posted on: 7 October 2014 - Categories: Health and Wellbeing, Reducing the burden of disease

For nearly 20 years England has been doing great work to tackle the harms caused by smoking. Cigarette advertising is banned, the age of sale for tobacco has been increased to 18 and enclosed public places have been smokefree since …

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