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Tobacco firm Philip Morris calls for ban on cigarettes within decade:
The chief executive of tobacco business Philip Morris International has called on the UK government to ban cigarettes within a decade, in a move that would outlaw its own Marlboro brand.
Jacek Olczak said the company could “see the world without cigarettes … and actually, the sooner it happens, the better it is for everyone.” Cigarettes should be treated like petrol cars, the sale of which is due to be banned from 2030, he said.
Government action would end the confusion felt by smokers, some of whom still thought the “alternatives are worse than cigarettes”, Olczak told the Sunday Telegraph. “Give them a choice of smoke-free alternatives … with the right regulation and information it can happen 10 years from now in some countries. You can solve the problem once and forever.”
Philip Morris International (PMI) recently said it wanted half its turnover to come from non-smoking products as it morphs into a “healthcare and wellness company” with executive pay tied to its new mission to “unsmoke the world” by phasing out cigarettes.
Nonetheless the company has come under fire from anti-smoking campaigners who accused it of hypocrisy after it launched a £1bn takeover bid for Vectura, a British pharmacy company that makes asthma inhalers.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 26 2021, @07:46PM (4 children)
Govern me harder, Daddy!
(Score: 1, Troll) by MIRV888 on Tuesday July 27 2021, @12:54AM (2 children)
The free market would have eliminated slavery, bad meat, over the counter cocaine, and laudanum all on its own.
Pull the other one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 27 2021, @02:49AM
Slavery would certainly have ended in the fields in America because mechanization would soon become cheaper than owning slow-working people. Do people pick cotton now? No.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 27 2021, @04:10AM
There's nothing wrong with cocaine or opium. False equivalences aren't a convincing argument.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 27 2021, @03:31AM
What do we do with a smoking nigga - 10 years mandatory?