UK Doctors Want ''Progressive Prohibition''

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter  03/28/2014

Leading UK doctors have called for a ban on cigarette sales to people born after 2000: a program of 'progressive prohibition' aimed at curbing smoking-related deaths, according to a story by Ben Lazarus for The Telegraph.

At the British Medical Association's annual public health medicine conference, the doctors urged the BMA to lobby for a complete ban on the sale of cigarettes to anyone born in this century.

But Ian Kennedy, a public health medicine registrar, questioned if banning cigarettes for a certain section of the population was a sustainable policy, and asked why 13 to 14-year-olds were being targeted. Enditem