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The government is pledging to end smoking in England by 2030 as part of a range of measures to tackle the causes of preventable ill health.
Axar.az reports citing BBC.
Promoting physical activity, developing guidelines on sleep and targeting those at risk of diabetes are also set out as priorities in the green paper.
The policy document aims to reduce the number of years spent in poor health.
Currently men and women spend over a fifth of their lives in ill health - 19 years for women and 16 for men.
Those in deprived areas experience the longest periods of poor health.
The green paper, which will now be consulted on, proposes a number of ways of tackling this.
They include:
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2019.07.24 / 20:52
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Axar.az
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