Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner.

Candidate for Mayor of London
Dobson was manoeuvred by the Labour Party leadership into announcing his resignation in order to stand as Mayor of London in the inaugural elections. He then studied Economics at the London School of Economics gaining a BSc in 1962. From 1975 to 1979 he was Assistant Secretary of the Office of the Local Ombudsman.

Pancras since 1979. Frank Gordon Dobson (born 15 March 1940) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St.