To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Major Conditions Strategy, whether his Department still plans to publish a separate Tobacco Control Plan.
Answered on
1 March 2023
The Government remains committed to its bold ambition to be Smokefree by 2030. We are still considering the recommendations made in ‘The Khan review: making smoking obsolete’ and further information will be available in due course.
Tackling smoking and other causes of preventable ill-health and mortality will be central to the Major Conditions Strategy. Smoking substantially increases the risk of heart disease, heart attack and stroke and causes seven out of 10 cases of lung cancer.
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