Heated Tobacco

Part of the debate – in Westminster Hall at 11:00 am on 26 June 2019.

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Photo of Mark Pritchard Mark Pritchard Conservative, The Wrekin 11:00, 26 June 2019

I am grateful to my right hon. Friend for securing this important debate. As a non-smoker, I think there is nothing worse than sitting outside a café in London or Shropshire and having my lungs full of somebody else’s smoke, or indeed trying to walk to Parliament and taking in a street full of smokers’ smoke. Having said that, I am a libertarian—if people want to smoke, they should be free to do so. His substantive point on public health education is absolutely right: the campaign against smoking is not over. In my Constituency of The Wrekin, 19,000 people still smoke. Does he agree that public health is important?

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