Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the independent review report entitled the Khan review: making smoking obsolete, published on 9 June 2022, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of the proposal in that report to modify advertising rules so vaping products can be promoted as a less harmful product.

We are considering the recommendations made in ‘The Khan review: making smoking obsolete’, including measures to help smokers switch to vaping such as introducing positive messaging through pack inserts and amending front of packet labelling on nicotine vaping products. The Department will continue to gather evidence on the potential merits of these measures and further information will be available in due course.