Smoke-free workplaces would hit tobacco profits

Tobacco multinationals would lose an estimated £310m ($575m; €450m) in sales every year if UK workplaces were smoke free, claims the BMA's chairman, James Johnson.

His comments come in the foreword to a report, Smoke-free World, from the BMA's Tobacco Control Resource Centre, in which doctors' leaders from eight countries describe the success of antismoking legislation.

Cuban workplaces, including this cigar factory, are now subject to a smoking …