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You and Yours: Plain-packaged cigarettes; Patient Choice; Boots

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07/08/2014

Plain-packaged cigarettes; Patient Choice; Boots

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, Plain-packaged cigarettes; Patient Choice; Boots

Winifred Robinson asks if plain-packaged cigarettes could reduce rates of smoking.

Consumer news. Winifred Robinson asks if plain-packaging of cigarettes could reduce rates of smoking, and hears the experience from Australia where it's been tried.

Could plain-packaging of cigarettes reduce rates of smoking? Public Health England thinks so. We hear the experience from Australia where it has already been tried. 

Remember "Patient Choice?" A health regulator says many NHS patients are not being offered the choice which was once promised.

Boots, a mainstay of the British high street, has been sold to an American company. We ask what, if anything, might change?

Producer: Louise Clarke-Rowbotham
Presenter: Winifred Robinson.

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