Smuggling is killing more people than illegal drugs

Tobacco smuggling cause approximately 4 000 premature deaths per year in the River yearfour times all illegal drug use due to deaths put togetherbut United Kingdom Government has not done enough problems require experts bmj.com today.

Professor Robert West Cancer Research UK Health Behaviour-research centre and colleagues argue more smokers to quit, if cigarettes cost more, but that was about half the price of the tobacco was keeping prices.

Approximately 21% of all tobacco burn the UK is smuggled country. If there is no legal tobacco smuggling, the price will increase by about 12% of the authors, this would result in an information folder., kicking saving of at least 4000 people a year as a way of smokers 5-8%.

The reduction of Tobacco smuggling also contribute to reducing health inequalities, because smokers are more likely to use a low income, refer to the tobacco and they are also more likely to be a price increase, close.

Although the authors recognize that tobacco smuggling has led to significant progress since the Government ' and the prohibition of tobacco smuggling Tackling ' strategy was announced in 2000, they argue that there is a need for the task and require more efforts and resources to the problem of child labour.

For example, the United Kingdom Government has followed the lead of all other EU countries and to log on to a legally enforceable contracts out two tobacco, Philip Morris International and Japan Tobacco International, that they closely manage and regulate distribution and stop providing contractors involved in the smuggling of failed.

The authors point out that, since the objectives of the public to reduce the smuggling into the United Kingdom was in March this year, HM Revenue and Customs can no longer be publicly responsible for performance in this area. they think that when the new UK border agency for the purpose of cross-border control, to later this year, there is a risk that tobacco smuggling sidelined focuses on immigration.

They conclude by the UK Government comprehensive measures and objectives of the UK border agency to combat illegal tobacco, as well as to support the negotiations currently running a strong international agreement between the Government of the United States to continue to progress in the fight against the smuggling of Delete.

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