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Kruti Shrotri, policy manager at Cancer Research UK, who funded the study, said: 'The tobacco industry were clearly saying anything they could to try and undermine this health measure and protect their profits.' There are 7.2 million adult smokers in Britain, latest figures suggest, but this would reduce by 250,000 with an increase of 3.5 per cent in price

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Smoking just one cigarette a day (compared to not smoking) was associated with largest increase in risk for developing these diseases relative to the number of cigarettes smoked per day

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But some public health advocates viewed it another way: as a giveaway for the vaping industry, and a chance for e-cigarette makers to further expand their market share among kids at a time when e-cigarette use by teens has eclipsed conventional cigarette use