Member

The amendments would provide the sustainable, ring-fenced resources that the public health system desperately needs to invest in prevention and treatment, where the industry has created the harm. They would bring the tobacco sector in line with the principle recently established for the gambling industry. The amendments do not seem to be punitive but proportionate. They target excessive profits, secure vital public health funding and end a long-standing market failure. They are a prudent financial measure that will help deal with health inequalities.