§ 24. Mr. Mawbyasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what recent representations she has received to limit the advertising of tobacco products.
§ Dr. OwenI receive a small but fairly regular number of representations on the need to limit or abolish tobacco advertising, particularly cigarette advertising. from individuals and from various bodies. especially those concerned with the control of smoking. I have also noted recommendations on this subject made to Governments and health authorities in a recent Report of a WHO Expert Committee on Smoking and its Effect of Health.
As I explained to the House during the debate on Smoking and Health on 16th January—[Vol. 903, c. 802–14.]—advertising and the promotion of tobacco products would be one of the issues to be covered under the voluntary side of the partly statutory and partly voluntary arrangements designed to reduce the health hazards of smoking which I announced that day.