Submitted on Saturday 28th March 2020
Rejected on Tuesday 12th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Ban cigarette sales to reduce the impact on limited ventilator & ICU capacity.
Immediately ban the sale of cigarettes whilst there is a chance of coronavirus infection in the country.
Smoking cigarettes will exacerbate the symptoms of coronavirus amongst infected smokers. Not smoking may reduce the symptoms allowing infected smokers to stay at home thereby lessening the load on the NHS.
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