The Government will bring in legislation to introduce standardised plain cigarette packaging before the end of this Parliament, health minister Jane Ellison has announced.
The ban on smoking in private cars with children will come into force on October 1 of this year, the minister also announced.
Christopher Snowdon, director of lifestyle economics at the right-wing think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs, has condemned the Government's announcement on plain packaging for cigarettes.
He said that similar legislation in Australia had led to a growing black market tobacco trade and described the move as "sheer negligence".
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