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Health Committee sets new anti-tobacco agenda, dismantles tobacco industry rhetoric and pushes BAT towards a smuggling investigation 

ASH hailed the Health Committee report into the tobacco industry as bold new thinking opening the way for a major overhaul of the regulation of the tobacco industry.

"The companies have had it much too easy for much too long" said Clive Bates, Director of ASH, "when you consider that cigarettes are by far the most dangerous consumer product ever invented, the regulation of just about every aspect of the contents, design, consumer information and marketing of the product has been completely inadequate."

"A ragbag of feeble voluntary agreements and supervision by a few harassed and over-stretched officials has basically left the tobacco industry untroubled by any meaningful regulation to date." said Bates.

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