Smoking: Prof Sir Chris Whitty backs tobacco phase-out plan

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Prof Sir Chris Whitty, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for England, has welcomed Rishi Sunak’s plan to raise the legal age of smoking every year by a year so that eventually no-one can buy tobacco.

He told the BBC: “As a doctor I’ve seen many people in hospital desperate to stop smoking because it’s something that is killing them.”