| Heading: |
Smoking: Young People |
| Question ID: |
1804741 |
| UIN: |
HL7671 |
| House: |
Lords |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-20 |
| Asking Member ID: |
2059 |
| Asking Member display name: |
The Earl of Lindsay
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
The Earl of Lindsay
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask His Majesty's Government what specific evidential basis they have to show the impact of including handmade cigars in the ban set out in the Tobacco and Vapes Bill on youth smoking initiation and reduction in tobacco addiction. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-02 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
347 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
Baroness Merron
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| Answer text: |
Tobacco is the single most important, entirely preventable cause of ill health, disability, and death in this country, and is responsible for approximately 80,000 deaths in the United Kingdom each year. There is no safe level of tobacco consumption. All t... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |