Plans to cut the number of smokers by pressurising them not to light up at home and in cars have been unveiled.
The Government’s ‘tobacco control strategy’ also proposes banning smoking at entrances to buildings and selling cigarettes in plain grey packets as part of a series of policies aimed at halving the number of smokers by 2020.
The plans were dismissed as ‘ meddlesome’ and ‘unworkable’ by critics.
But Health Secretary Andy Burnham said: ‘I make no apology when it comes to protecting children and giving them the best start in life.
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