We know what to do, and the tobacco industry should be made to pay for it
Smoking is on course to kill around one billion people in the 21st century1 and is the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. The adult smoking rate in England is now 14.4%, down from 19.3% five years ago, but this still represents six million smokers.2 Smoking is an important driver of health inequality; more than 25% of routine and manual workers smoke, compared with 10% in the professional and managerial group. The UK government’s prevention green paper3 set out an ambition for England to be smoke free by 2030, defined in its 2017 tobacco control plan as a smoking rate below 5%. The equivalent target for Scotland is 2034.
The UK has made important progress in tackling the tobacco epidemic4 through policies such as taxation to reduce the affordability of tobacco products and the introduction of standardised packaging and display bans,5 as well as by advancing smoke-free legislation, most recently a ban on smoking in cars with children …

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到2030年实现无烟英格兰的道路。

我们知道该怎么做，应该让烟草业为此付出代价。
吸烟在21世纪1必将杀死约10亿人，是可预防的发病率和死亡率的主要原因。英格兰的成人吸烟率现在为14.4％，低于五年前的19.3％，但这仍然代表了600万烟民。2吸烟是造成健康不平等的重要原因；普通和体力劳动者吸烟的比例超过25％，而专业和管理人员为10％。英国政府的预防性绿皮书3提出了到2030年实现无烟的雄心，这在其2017年烟草控制计划中定义为吸烟率低于5％。苏格兰的等效目标是2034年。
英国在应对烟草流行方面取得了重要进展4，其政策包括降低税收，以降低烟草制品的可负担性，实行标准化的包装和展示禁令5，以及通过推进无烟立法，最近是一项禁止吸烟的立法。与孩子一起在汽车中吸烟…