Over 1000 doctors sign letter calling for new tobacco plan for England

More than 1000 doctors and other healthcare workers, including five former presidents of royal colleges, have written an open letter to the prime minister, Theresa May, and England’s health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, urging them to publish a new Tobacco Control Plan “without further delay” to address inequalities in health.1

The letter, which was organised by Nick Hopkinson, reader in respiratory medicine at Imperial College London, pointed out that the government’s previous tobacco strategy for England expired at the end of 2015 and that despite …