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There’s a push on for governments to set a date to ban cigarettes sales through retailers (look out for freedom protestors adding this to their grab bag of complaints).
Experts say the public health initiatives are not enough and that “cigarettes do not meet modern consumer product safety standards”, medical editor Melissa Davey writes:
from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3oL6a8P