Smoking it is correlated with a high risk of heart and lung disease. My advice, for what it's worth, is to cut down, or give up - or, best of all, never start smoking. For the medical estblishment, the answer is a firm yes. There is to be a ban on all advertising and sponsorship. There are to be bans on smoking in all public places.
Prices are to be pushed up by heavier taxation.
If these measures don't work, direct compulsion may be justified. No decent society would actually allow, willy nilly, the promotion of a product even a tenth as dangerous as cigarettes. For the Labour Party leadership, the answer is an equally firm yes. It was Derek Robinson, a Labour Minister of Health who, in the 1960s, brought in the first restrictions on tobacco advertising. Most recently, the Party has been committed to a total ban on advertising.