Clause 21
Health Bill [Lords]
4:15 pm
Michael Penning (Shadow Minister, Health; Hemel Hempstead, Conservative)
I completely agree with the Minister that we must make every effort to help people who want to quit smoking. May I take her back to what she said about display? I understood that the Bill’s purpose was to prevent young people from seeing tobacco advertised in a shop in a display, and then illegally purchasing it on impulse. The Minister has just said that its purpose is to prevent adults from seeing tobacco advertised in a display. That is an imbalance. Is the purpose of the legislation to prevent under-age people from smoking, or not?