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Public Demand More Government Action To Curb Smoking, UK 

The government will launch a public consultation next month on its plans to tighten legislation on the sale of tobacco - but new research reveals that people, including smokers, are already demanding more action.

A poll carried out for ASH revealed that:

- 76% of GB adults support a ban on smoking in cars carrying children under the age of 18, - 85% of adults in England and Wales want retailers who are convicted of selling tobacco illegally to children to be banned from selling tobacco products, and - 88% of adults in Scotland agree that businesses found to have sold or supplied tobacco to under-18s more than once should have their right to sell tobacco suspended.

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