British MPS ‘took tobacco firm hospitality’

British MPs accepted tickets to events including Wimbledon, Chelsea Flower Show and a Paul McCartney show, all paid for by the powerful tobacco industry, an investigation has revealed.

A report in the British Medical Journal found 38 MPs have accepted more than £60,000-worth (€85,000) of hospitality from the tobacco industry since 2010.

Twenty of the MPs recently voted against plain packaging on tobacco products, while more than half of them are from constituencies where the number of smoking-related deaths exceeds the national average, the investigation found.