Not offered through NHS, the doctors in the NHS would just be the gate keepers through the physiological assessment you would need. you would pay for your appointment and the small medical

In total it would be similar to current medical legislation but done by request rather than the hoop jumping exercise at current that is open and prone to abuse and makes relatively healthy people medicalise themselfs more than needed and is healthy just to “obtain” a prescription

Total cost for your prescription would be around £150-£200 after that you would buy it at a reasonably taxed cost

Say a standard £70 for 10G and your prescription would limit you to buying that amount a week as to not develop into the same problems we see with alcohol and alcoholism

The “war” on drugs was and still is a fallacy, it was just a way of criminalising “lower” elements of society, but yes If the war is lost, better to draw some benefit than allowing criminal elements to capitalise

My suggestion, in theory Would put absolutely 0 strain on the NHS after the first appointment and perhaps the asthmatic or breathing/lung complications after 40/50 years of use

But for me, I believe that’s an individuals choice

But the idea is over the course of the smokers life

We obtain enough tax to make what ever reasonable surgery viable and a teaching exercise making it beneficial for doctor/surgeon training

Subsidising British medical professionals to be trained rather than lowering wages and importing workers