Retailers should hand over the profits they make from tobacco sales to fund tobacco control projects and reduce smoking rates, doctors have said.

The proposal is one of several measures outlined in a new report by the British Medical Association, which has stated it would like to see the UK tobacco free by 2035. 

“Encouraging retailers to donate the profits they make from tobacco sales would also “have an important symbolic value, undermining the notion that tobacco is a legitimate commodity like any other,” the report said.

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