Betty McBride, director of policy and communications at the British Heart Foundation, said thousands of children at risk of this "deadly addiction" regularly got tobacco from vending machines, "which conveniently don't ask them to prove their age".
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Betty McBride, director of policy and communications, at the British Heart Foundation, said the report set out a roadmap for the government to phase out charges for people with long-term conditions without burdening the NHS with unaffordable extra costs.