Submitted on Wednesday 17th April 2019
Rejected on Tuesday 23rd April 2019
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Call for the criminalization of tobacco products throughout the UK!
This petition serves two purposes:
1) Compares the government's own standards for what constitutes a harmful substance with the proven dangers associated with tobacco consumption.
2) Calls into question the current misguided approach to tackling substance misuse.
Tobacco kills 95,800 people a year in the UK!
According to NHS England, each year 78,000 die, there are 484,700 hosptial admissions, around 10.8% of mothers smoke during prenancy, costing at least £2bn each year in England alone.
In Scotland, 1/5 deaths is related to smoking (10,000 people each year) and the drug costs the NHS around £300mn.
Cancer research suggests that smoking is responsible for 15% of cancer instances and around 11,000 people die each year as a result of passive smoking.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/204927
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