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 'comparable to with addiction to 'hard' drugs'.
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