REGARDLESS OF THE OUTCOME of the United Kingdom’s recent general election, the biggest winners could turn out to be tobacco manufacturers. As a result of calling the election four years into a possible five-year term, the Labour government had to drop a number of bills. One of these would have placed severe restrictions on cigarette marketing and banned related advertising.
Despite a public pledge to reintroduce the bill, the signs are that it might stall. The original legislation ran into criticism from all parties in the second chamber, the House of Lords. And the opposition Conservative party added a
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