HC Deb 04 June 1991 vol 192 cc151-2W
Mr. Amos

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will provide the source of his information that cigarette consumption in the Netherlands declined by 41 per cent. over the period 1975 to 1987; and whether this figure is for both manufactured cigarettes and hand-rolling tobacco together, or for only one of these categories.

Mr. Dorrell

The original source of this information is the Central Bureau for Statistics, the Netherlands. The figure relates only to manufactured cigarettes. It was recently published in the United Kingdom in Waterson M. J. "Advertising and Tobacco Consumption: An Analysis of the two Major Aspects of the Debate"International Journal of Advertising, 1990, 9, 59–72, a copy of which is available in the Library.