UK elected officials have submitted an amendment to the Health and Care Bill to have the slogan "Smoking kills" printed on all cigarettes on the market.
The aim is to deter people from smoking, especially younger ones, reports
The Guardian
.
It was Labor elected representative Mary Kelly Foy who tabled this amendment.
“I hope it will have the desired effect,” said the MP, calling cigarettes “carcinogenic sticks”.
The text includes other measures, such as the obligation for companies to mention the risks of tobacco on health inside the packages or the taxation of their profits to finance the fight against smoking, relays
Slate
.
The tobacco industry on the rise
The elected representative also wishes to raise the legal age to be able to buy a package from 18 to 21 years in the country.
On the side of the players in the tobacco industry, this project is not successful.
"Too much is too much," said Simon Clark, director of the pro-tobacco group Forest, quoted by
Slate
.
“If adults still choose to smoke, it's their business, not the government's.
"
Forty years ago, the British Minister of Health George Young had already made a similar bill.
But tobacco companies had opposed the project, arguing that the ink used to inscribe the slogan would be toxic to smokers.
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