HL Deb 17 October 2000 vol 617 c83WA
Lord Laird

asked Her Majesty's Government:

How they are co-operating with cigarette manufacturing companies to help smokers to quit, as was stated in the BBC Radio 4 "Today" programme on 10 October by a representative of the British American Tobacco Company. [HL4137]

Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

The United Kingdom Government do not co-operate with the cigarette manufacturing companies to help smokers quit and have no plans to do so.