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Should you need a licence to smoke?
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If you're a smoker, could you imagine having to apply and pay for a licence to buy tobacco?
The application process might even include a test to find out if you understood the risks of smoking, and your swipe card licence would limit your tobacco purchases - perhaps to 50 cigarettes per day or less.
It might sound extreme, even social engineering, but this is the proposal of a public health expert in Australia, who suggests that it could provide a practical "disincentive" for smokers.
Prof Simon Chapman from the University of Sydney is interested in the next generation of truly effective anti-smoking measures.
Laying out his case for a smokers licence in the latest issue of the journal Plos Medicine, he said it could be of interest to "high-income nations that are actively pursuing tobacco control goals".
So could a government-issued licence be the best solution to reduce smoking? And how could such a scheme work?
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