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"The 'illicit issue' is being used by Big Tobacco as part of a public relations strategy to raise doubts about the effectiveness of standardised packaging, with the aim of derailing legislation. Weak evidence on standardised packaging In February 2014, our researchers found that the deluge of evidence cited by global tobacco companies in response to the government consultation on standardised packaging for cigarettes was either low quality or off-topic

The premise that reduced nicotine in combustible cigarettes will reduce harm is based on an assumption that the number of cigarettes smoked will decrease

Did I have to be there for it to still hurt me? The answer, of course, is no

"It's punishing the poor," says Hassan Essam, who has worked at Hamdy's in north London for almost 25 years