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Raise taxes to stub out smoking by 2025, say doctors
Britain's oldest and most powerful medical college today calls on the Government to set a target to eliminate smoking by 2025.
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Dear Virginia, My wife suffers from a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder and our house is filled with old newspapers, bags of shopping, old food cartons, boxes and rubbish. I and my two teenage sons have had to move next door as there's no room to eat or sleep. The children are happy and balanced – there's no lack of love. A doctor has said that without help, which she refuses, she'll never get better. What can I do?, Yours sincerely, Rodney
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