Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 19233

Smoking: Young People

Tabled: 11 December 2024

Answered: 16 December 2024

Named Day

Question

Sir Christopher Chope

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the probability of young people switching from vaping to smoking tobacco products as a result of the implementation of a generational ban on tobacco sales.

Answer

It is very unlikely that young people will switch from vaping to smoking, as the generational ban on tobacco sales will make it illegal for children born on or after 1 January 2009 to ever legally be sold cigarettes or other tobacco products. Our modellin...

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