§ Sir Dudley SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Services (1) if he will detail the scientific and research evidence which has been produced to him in support of the proposed ban on all smokeless tobacco products;
(2) on what statistical scientific and analytical information his Department has based its proposed ban on all smokeless tobacco products.
§ Mrs. Currie[pursuant to her reply, 23 march 1988, c. 153–54]A number of references were omitted from the list placed in the Library. A revised list has been placed in the Library. The Government's proposals rest on the evidence listed and the conclusions based on it of the committee on carcinogenicity of chemicals in food, consumer products and the environment, those of the independent scientific committee on smoking and health, the report of the United States Surgeon General of April 1986 on evidence of links between smokeless tobacco products and oral cancer, the findings set out in the International Agency on Research into Cancer's report on evaluation of carcinogenetic risks to humans (volume 37)736W and the views of a WHO group of experts meeting in June 1987. A press release summarising their views has also been placed in the Library.