Article: Call time now on smoking in public, say top doctors.(News)

Byline: Laura Elston

Smoking should be banned in public places in Britain, senior doctors demanded yesterday.

All 13 Royal Colleges of Medicine warned that employers had a duty to protect staff from harm and that smoke-free workplaces could save 150,000 lives in the long term.

In a letter to The Times, 18 signatories, headed by president of the Royal College of Physicians Professor Carol Black, criticised the current system of self regulation.

They wrote: 'We believe the time has ...

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