Making Smoking Obsolete Independent Review

(asked on 9th November 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, The Khan review: making smoking obsolete published 9 June 2022, what steps his Department is taking to address the findings of that report.


Answered by
Neil O'Brien Portrait
Neil O'Brien
This question was answered on 17th November 2022

The Government is considering the independent recommendations made in the Khan Review and how these could be implemented.

We are undertaking a range of work to offer vaping as a substitute for smkoing, as at Recommendation 8 of the Khan Review. In September 2022, we published ‘Nicotine vaping in England: 2022 evidence update’ sets out the latest evidence on the health effects of vaping and addresses misconceptions surrounding vapes, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nicotine-vaping-in-england-2022-evidence-update

We will provide an update on our plans to meet the Smokefree 2030 ambition in due course.

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