Question reference: S5W-18697
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 10 September 2018
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Current status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 25 September 2018
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18323 by Joe Fitzpatrick on 29 August 2018, whether it would consider amending the Prohibition of Smoking in Certain Premises (Scotland) Regulations 2006 to include bothies in the list of no-smoking premises to eliminate any uncertainty of the definition in schedule 1.
Answer
I refer the member to my answer to S5W-18323 pointing the member to the Scottish Government’s Tobacco Control Action Plan - http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2018/06/9483 .
The member will note from the Plan that our priority is on addressing health inequalities and cutting smoking rates, rather than legislation.
The Scottish Health Survey 2017, published on 25 September 2018, includes a number of areas where good progress has been made in key areas of population health.
In particular the smoking rate for adults has continued to fall and is now at 18 per cent (down from 28 per cent in 2003 and down from 2006 figure of 21%).
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