For the last time, how to quit smoking and save the health care...

Hello my wonderful readers, I would just like to try one more time to put across an idea that would work.

Lord only knows no one will see the sence in this, even when it is spelt out, but this is england where you can leave Uni and not be able to count to 10.

Health Care, the NHS and Smoking. You know what I mean, you see the ads as a cost of millions to stop you smoking, the packs they will send through the post the special people to assist you in quitting, lets try this on for size.

Part 1 - You make cigarettes a prescription only.
(This means no new smokers can start without a Doctors say so, and you guarantee the money and prices, you also stop underage smoking because of the prescription drug laws, and you give the police another easy target. Your smoking sir, can I see the prescription for those cigarettes.)
Part 2 – Every 6 months a chest x-ray is required and your doctor gives you another prescription for cigarettes, but if they see a spot, and catch cancer early, you have to quit and you cannot get any cigarettes legally again.
What this does it, brings all the money for cigarettes into the health care system. Allows you to control smokers and who is smoking and guarantees money into the health care system.
You could two part the system. Mild or Light cigarettes over the counter, and the good old boys via the doctor, and bring it in over 2 or 3 years that they get weaker and weaker.
Now the cigarette companies get to go back to advertising, as lets face it no one starts smoking because they see it on the back of a race car at 200 miles an hour, or because someone hits a little red ball into a small pocket.
You work this system to start in 5 years, 2 to 3 years to change to full prescription for cigarettes, and 25 years later, no one smoking. You task the smoking companies to promote and product other health care systems, or give them first shot at building schools or any other project they comes up that might make them money from the government.
That should be enough to keep the share holders happy, give them tax breaks, anything but the above system allows you full control and stops people smoking.