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Intro: "If the Health Select Committee's report helps to restore the dialogue and co-operation that previously existed between the TMA's member companies and successive Governments, it will have served some purpose.
"The report makes many sweeping recommendations, which we - and the Government - will have to consider closely before expressing a view. There will undoubtedly be areas of disagreement but our member companies remain committed to co-operating on genuine issues of concern.
"The tobacco companies are engaged in a legal business and, whether their critics like it or not, the only sure way of delivering practical and workable policies in the future, and for the Government to achieve its objectives, is to talk constructively to the TMA and its members.
"The TMA looks forward to sitting down with Health Ministers as soon as possible to discuss the way forward."
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