Tobacco smuggling is killing more people than illegal drugs

Friday, October 10, 2008 - 05:07 in Health & Medicine

Tobacco smuggling causes around 4,000 premature deaths a year—four times the number of deaths caused by the use of all smuggled illegal drugs put together—but the UK government is not doing enough to tackle the problem, claim experts on bmj.com today.

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