Smoking industry eyes the young, conference hears

ALL profits from tobacco sales to children should be handed back to anti-smoking pressure groups, a major international conference heard yesterday.

And health experts called on the global tobacco industry to back up claims that children should not smoke by putting money into saving lives.

Professor Simon Chapman from the University of Sydney in Australia told the World Conference for Cancer Organisations (WCCO) in Dublin that the tobacco industry now believed it should be re-admitted to civil society because it had admitted its products kill.