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The idea here is that most smokers want to quit, and the government wants to make it as difficult as possible to smoke. Anyone wanting to spark up would be forced to go down to the local smoke office, get their picture taken, fill out some forms and then they would be free to smoke for another year.
It's a pain in the ass, and the idea is that will stop a chunk of people from bothering. But will it stop them from smoking? Well, if you need a license to buy a pack of smokes, maybe a little.
Smokers could be forced to pay £10 for a permit to buy tobacco if a government health advisory body gets its way.
No one would be able to buy cigarettes without the permit, under the idea proposed by Health for England.-
He said it was the inconvenience of getting a permit -as much as the cost - that would deter people from persisting with thesmoking habit.
"You've got to get a form, a complex form - the government's good at complex forms; you have got to get a photograph.
"It's a little bit of a problem to actually do it, soyou have got to make a conscious decision every year to opt in to beinga smoker."
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