Letters
Open letter to the prime minister/secretary of state for health
Standardised (“plain”) packaging of cigarettes regulations must be passed before the general election
BMJ 2014; 349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7751 (Published 29 December 2014) Cite this as: BMJ 2014;349:g7751
- Nicholas S Hopkinson, chair1,
- Sanjay Agrawal, chair2,
- Rebecca Sherrington, chair3,
- Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary4,
- Janet Atherton, president5,
- Iolo Doull, president6,
- Hilary Cass, president7
- on behalf of 3096 doctors, nurses, and other healthcare workers
- 1British Thoracic Society Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Specialist Advisory Group, Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College, London SW3 6NP, UK
- 2British Thoracic Specialist Advisory Group on Tobacco, Leicester, UK
- 3Association of Respiratory Nurse Specialists, Guernsey, Channel Islands
- 4Royal College of Nursing, London, UK
- 5Association of Directors of Public Health, Sefton, UK
- 6British Paediatric Respiratory Society, Cardiff, UK
- 7Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, London, UK
- n.hopkinson{at}imperial.ac.uk
More than half a million children have taken up smoking since the government first announced it would consult on plain standardised packaging of cigarette packs in 2011,1 2 and every day hundreds more join them.3
After a strongly supportive government commissioned independent review of the evidence,4 the public health minister said she wanted to introduce the necessary regulations …
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