In Brief: Call for smoking to be treated as hard drug

A medical royal college has called for smoking to be taken as seriously as the use of heroin or cocaine, with treatment routinely available on the NHS. In a hard-hitting report, the Royal College of Physicians of England calls for a radical new approach to tobacco use, recognising it as ...

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