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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ella Pickover

Big tobacco should be forced to pay ‘polluter pays levy’ – MPs

Tobacco firms should be subject to a “polluter pays” levy which would fund schemes to help reduce smoking rates, a group of MPs said.

While “world leading” laws to phase out smoking are passing through Parliament, MPs said that more could be done to help the millions of people who are “trapped by addiction”.

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