SMOKING RATES

Motion Text

That this House welcomes the two per cent. reduction achieved in 2006 in the smoking prevalence rate among adults in the UK, bringing the rate down to 22 per cent. and the reduction from 33 per cent. to 28 per cent. in the equivalent rate amongst routine and manual workers recorded by the General Household Survey between 1998 and 2006; anticipates a further substantial reduction for 2007 as a result of smoke-free legislation; and urges the Government to build on these successes with an adequately resourced, comprehensive and cross-governmental strategy for tobacco control.