Tobacco: Packaging
(asked on 5th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what recent assessment he has made of the effect of the introduction of plain packaging on rates of (a) smoking and (b) lung cancer.
This question was answered on 13th July 2016
The Department published a final Impact Assessment on 10 February 2015 which estimates that standardised packaging will result in around 390,000 additional adult quitters and 5,500 fewer child smokers.