Smoking
(asked on 21st November 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many local authorities have a specialist stop smoking service open to all smokers in their area.
This question was answered on 24th November 2022
According to ‘Reaching Out: Tobacco control and stop smoking services in local authorities in England, 2021’ published by Action on Smoking and Health and Cancer Research UK, of 150 local authorities, 90% provide a universal stop smoking offer. 67% of local authorities provide this offer through a specialist stop smoking service and 9% provide stop smoking support to targeted populations.