UK considers a new way to end smoking

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The British government is considering a controversial measure to reduce the number of smokers by half in ten years. It wants to sell cigarettes in packs featuring only the text of the cigarette brand set on a uniform gray background. But tobacco companies are resisting the move.

BBC Business Reporter Rodney Smith joins us from London with more.

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