Jul 5, 2014

Britain has a plan to totally eliminate one of the biggest public health problems of our time: cigarettes.

Britain's Doctors Are Moving to Ban Something That Kills 439 Americans Every Day: Britain has a plan to totally eliminate one of the biggest public health problems of our time: cigarettes.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has voted "overwhelmingly" to ban the sale of cigarettes to those born after the year 2000, in much the same way that the BMA helped push through a ban on smoking in public in 2002 and smoking in cars carrying children in 2011. Tim Crocker-Buque, a specialist registrar in public health medicine who proposed the motion, told the Guardian that any such law could make the U.K. the first nation to totally eradicate smoking.

"Smoking is not a rational, informed choice of adulthood," Crocker-Buque said. "80% of smokers start as teenagers as a result of intense peer pressure. Smokers who start smoking at age 15 are three times as likely to die of smoking-related cancer as someone who starts in their mid-20s."

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// Mic