Measures to be brought in to stub out smoking

TOBACCO companies may be forced to sell cigarettes in plain packaging as part of a raft of measures designed to halve the number of smokers in England by 2020.

Health secretary Andy Burnham today pledged to cut the number of smokers from a fifth (21 per cent) of the population to one in 10 (10 per cent) in the next 10 years.

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