Michael Bloomberg slams big tobacco: 'These people try to kill for their own profits'

Michael Bloomberg laid into the cigarette industry at a conference in London on Monday, saying that tobacco companies "deliberately go out every day and try to kill, for their own profits, the poor around the world." The former New York Mayor is an avowed enemy of smoking, famously introducing a smoking ban in bars and restaurants in New York in 2003. The move inspired similar bans around the world, including in Britain. Speaking at the City Lab London conference on Monday Bloomberg said: "The b...