Press Releases

ASH and APPG on Smoking and Health welcome bold Javed Khan review to deliver Government’s Smokefree 2030 ambition

9 June 2022 Calls for immediate investment of £125 million a year will help to make smoking history.   Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) today (June 9) welcomed Javed Khan’s call for £125 million immediate annual investment to deliver his bold plans to make smoking obsolete. Following publication of the independent review, ASH urged […]

The NHS, local government, MPs and peers stand together to commit to a smokefree future

09 March 2022 At a parliamentary event to celebrate No Smoking Day [1] the Public Health Minister heard leading figures from across health and local government affirm their commitment to securing the Government’s goal of a smokefree country by 2030. The Public Health Minister was speaking together with Local Government Leaders and senior figures from […]

Bill to put health warnings on cigarette sticks being put to Parliament on Monday 14th June

Sunday 13th June 2021 Bill to put health warnings on cigarette sticks being put to Parliament on Monday 14th June Lord Young of Cookham first proposed health warnings on cigarettes when he was a health minister in Margaret Thatcher’s Government, but he was thwarted by the tobacco manufacturers. Four decades later the former MP, now […]

Parliamentarians call on Government to end the tobacco epidemic by 2030

Wednesday 9th June 2021 Parliamentarians call on Government to end the tobacco epidemic by 2030 Today [Wednesday 9th June] the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health [1] warns the Government that it can only build back better and fairer from the pandemic by making smoking obsolete. Now, say the cross-party group of MPs […]

Tribute to Baroness O’Cathain

23rd April 2021 Tribute to Baroness O’Cathain, former officer of the APPG on Smoking and Health by Lord Faulkner of Worcester, Vice-Chair of the APPG The death of Baroness (Detta) O’Cathain at the age of 83 removes from public life and Parliament one of the tobacco industry’s most effective and articulate opponents. Detta made several […]

All Party Group urges Government to keep its foot on the pedal and publish plan to deliver a smokefree future

22 July 2020  All Party Group urges Government to keep its foot on the pedal and publish plan to deliver a smokefree future A year after the Government’s announcement of its smokefree 2030 ambition, a new analysis of child smoking rates shows how the number of children under 16 taking up smoking fell dramatically as […]

Government commits to protect public health policy from tobacco industry interference

Government commits to protect public health policy from tobacco industry interference The Minister for Prevention, Public Health and Primary Care, Jo Churchill MP, responded in an adjournment debate in parliament last night [1] to recent revelations that the world’s biggest tobacco manufacturer is attempting to subvert the UK Government’s tobacco policy. The Chairman of the […]

Bob Blackman MP, chair of APPG on Smoking and Health, welcomes Government ambition for England to be smoke-free by 2030

22nd July 2019 The Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Smoking and Health, Bob Blackman MP, is delighted to welcome the publication today of the Prevention Green Paper with its ambition to end smoking by 2030. [1] The Green Paper is the start of a more detailed consultation process. The APPG welcomes […]

Delivering the vision of a ‘Smokefree Generation’ The APPG on Smoking and Health submission to the Prevention Green Paper

3rd March 2019   New recommendations for central government significantly strengthen tobacco regulation in order to deliver the vision for prevention [2]  and achieve the ‘smokefree generation’ envisaged in the 2017 Tobacco Control Plan for England.[3] When the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care launched his vision for prevention, he asked for ideas […]

New Tobacco Control Plan for England Published

18 July 2017 The All Party Group on Smoking and Health has welcomed the new Tobacco Control Plan for England, “Towards a Smokefree Generation”, which was published today by the Department of Health. [1] The APPG is delighted that the Government has responded to its calls for a new Tobacco Control Plan [2] and strongly […]

MPs call on Government to publish new Tobacco Control Plan without further delay

13 October 2016 Members of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health will today be calling on the Government to publish its promised new Tobacco Control Plan without further delay. [1] The Government committed to a new plan after the previous one expired in December 2015 and to publication in summer 2016, but […]

MPs call on Chancellor to increase tobacco taxes to fund reduction in smoking prevalence

APPG warmly welcomes Chantler review and urges Government to implement standardised (“plain”) cigarette packs

APPG on Smoking and Health Says: Let Parliament Decide on Standardised Packaging

Illicit Tobacco: the truth the tobacco industry doesn’t want you to know