Current status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Aileen Campbell on 20 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when its new tobacco control strategy/action plan will be published.
I will be publishing the Scottish Government’s new tobacco control action plan Raising Scotland’s Tobacco Free Generation today.
The document sets out a five year plan for action focusing on our tobacco-free generation - children who are turning five this year. Our long-term goal is for the young people of this generation to be truly tobacco-free when they turn 21 in 2034.
The action plan demonstrates our commitment to the new Public Health Priorities which include an ambition for a Scotland free from the harms caused by alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
There are 44 specific actions in the plan, all of which have been developed with relevant partners. The plan includes actions we propose to take right away – legislating to restrict smoking around hospital buildings, banning tobacco in prisons, establishing the new national stop-smoking service brand and running the final phase of our stop-smoking media campaign: Getting Through 72 .
The action plan will be available at http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/06/9483