Tobacco Control Plan for England

The Government has launched a new Tobacco Control Plan which sets out its strategy for tackling tobacco in England.

The Plan includes clear goals to reduce adult smoking prevalence from 21% to 18.5% by 2015, smoking rates among 15 year olds from 15% to 12% by 2015 and smoking in pregnancy from 14% to 11% by 2015.

The Plan also commits to look at the evidence in support of plain packaging of tobacco products and to ending the display of tobacco products in large shops in England by April 2012, and in small shops by April 2015.

Click here for ASH's response.

To coincide with the launch of the Government's Tobacco Plan ASH has released new research which shows that the public would support putting tobacco products in plain packaging if there was evidence to support such a move. Details of the research can be found here (pdf).

Please see the Smokefree Action website for further details.