England aims to reduce smoking to less than 5% by 2030, but this will need mass switching to smoke-free products as a consumer alternative to smoking, and it must be achieved by consent rather than coercion
The government has established a ‘smoke-free’ goal to reach 5% adult smoking prevalence in England by 2030.
This represents a significant acceleration in progress (see chart above with linear trends). As a prelude to announcing a plan to achieve the goal, Ministers appointed Javed Khan OBE to head an independent review of tobacco policy to make recommendations for measures to meet the target and contribute to reducing health inequalities.
Here is what Dr Khan has come up with:
- Full report: The Khan review: Making smoking obsolete (9 June 2022)
- Summary: Making smoking obsolete: summary (9 June 2022)
- Press release: Independent review published to help meet 2030 smokefree target (9 June 2022)
Clive Bates – Counterfactual – 2022-07-07
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