Graphic pictures illustrating the effects smoking can have on health will be printed on all cigarette packets from next year, health secretary Alan Johnson has announced.
The 15 images to be used were chosen following a consultation in 2006, market research and a public vote.
The move makes the UK the first country in the EU to introduce visual warnings on all tobacco products.
NHS England has seen off a legal challenge to its largest ever medicines procurement, which is aimed at acquiring drugs to help eliminate hepatitis C in the country by 2025.
NHS England has been accused of a “crude” attempt to engineer a “land grab” after its NHS long-term plan suggested a diminished role for local government in public health.
The third largest London borough will discontinue its NHS-provided stop smoking service to save money.
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