"The ban on cigarette sales from vending machines will protect children by making cigarettes less accessible to them - we want to do everything we can to encourage young people not to start smoking in the first place." Jo Butcher, the National Children's Bureau's programme director of health and wellbeing, welcomed the ban and said a person's lifetime smoking or non-smoking behaviour was "heavily influenced" by decisions in their adolescence
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Dr Tim Ballard, RCGP vice chairman, said: The college recognises e-cigarettes as a safer alternative to cigarettes and we welcome todays comprehensive report, which should increase the confidence of GPs and our teams as we help our patients to quit smoking in order to improve their long term health
Health Minister Amir Kiani has appreciated this idea because according to a rough estimate, a revenue of around Rs60 billion is expected to be generated through the tax and the money raised will be spent on health insurance of the Pakistani people, an important point of the PTI-governments manifesto, he said