Smoking control and cessation.
Over the last 30 years the prevalence of cigarette smoking in adults in the UK has fallen to around 30%. Smoking will still kill 100,000 people each year well into the next century. Smoking in children is related to whether their parents smoke. Moves to reduce smoking in adults will therefore reduce smoking in children. The Government should be urged to raise taxes on cigarettes and ban advertising. Smoking should be banned from all health care premises. Hospitals should be encouraged to appoint smoking cessation counsellors to work with both staff and patients.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality; D016540:Smoking Cessation / Q000379:methods*; D000074606:Smoking Prevention; D013660:Taxes; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology