The latest government plans to cut smoking rates are “a step forward” but are only around a third of the investment needed to deliver the ambition to make England smoke free by 2030, leading doctors, academics, and charities have warned.1
On 11 April, health minister Neil O’Brien announced a series of new measures in response to Javed Khan’s independent review into smoking.2 These included a “swap to stop” scheme with up to a million smokers offered a free vaping starter kit and a separate programme to …