Following much uncertainty amid unprecedented political turmoil in the United Kingdom, the country has recommitted to making smoking in England obsolete by 2030, a promise it had made earlier this year.
In February, the government announced that Dr. Javed Khan, the former chief executive of Barnardo’s, the UK’s largest children’s charity, would spearhead an independent review to study smoking-related health disparities.
That report, published in June, recommended 15 actions that England could take in order to go “smoke-free” by the end of the decade.
These included offering nicotine vapes to people looking to stop smoking, providing free “swap to stop” starter packs for deprived communities, helping to “accelerate the path to prescribed vapes through medical licensing,” investing 125 million pounds for a comprehensive program to achieve the recommendations in the report, and “increasing the age of sale by one year, every year” to eventually make no one eligible to purchase tobacco products. (On this latter point, New Zealand has adopted a similar approach—not without some controversy over its prohibitionist aspects.)
Kiran Sidhu – Filter – 2022-11-23.
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