§ 17. Mr. Sproatasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the action now to be taken in Scotland to warn of the dangers of cigarette smoking.
§ Mr. Gordon CampbellScotland will be associated with all the measures announced by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Social Services in his statement to the House on 16th March. As previously announced, the Scottish Health Education Unit will almost double its anti-smoking activities this year, and will, I hope, make an even stronger impact through the use of television than it did last autumn.—[Vol. 813, c. 1189–98.]
§ Mr. SproatI thank my right hon. Friend for that reply. Is the Scottish Office currently commissioning, or carrying out, research into the so-called safe cigarette?
§ Mr. CampbellI cannot answer that without notice, but I am not aware of such research at present. I remind my hon. Friend that it was in Scotland last autumn that the first British anti-smoking television advertising was carried out.