Tobacco Control Plan - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:26 pm on 23 November 2022.

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Photo of Lord Markham Lord Markham The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care 3:26, 23 November 2022

First, I thank the noble Lord for all his work to reduce smoking; I am grateful for it every time I walk into a smoke-free environment in the evening. As he said, a cross-party approach has achieved many great things. As the noble Lord knows, there are some quite radical things in the Khan review, such as increasing the smoking age every year, which would in effect ban smoking altogether. There are many pros and cons to the prohibition argument, but it is something we take very seriously and we will publish our response. I assure noble Lords that we are going to tackle this issue.