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Smokefree consultation response

Name: Smokefree Elements of the Health Improvement and Protection Bill
Source: Department of Health
Date: September 2005

The Choosing Health White Paper, published in November 2004, set out a range of measures to promote smokefree environments. It proposed making some enclosed public places and workplaces smokefree, but gave exemptions to private members clubs and pubs that don't serve food.

In Summer 2005, the Department of Health launched a public consultation on the smokefree elements of the Health Improvement and Protection Bill. This asked for views on what should be counted as an enclosed public place or workplace, what exemptions should apply, and when smokefree legislation should be implemented.

Cancer Research UK strongly believes that a comprehensive smokefree law, without exemptions for pubs that don't serve food and members' clubs, should be implemented without delay.

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Download our response to this consultation as a pdf, Response to the Smokefree Consultation

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Public support for smokefree public places

More than six thousand of our supporters have also contacted the Department of Health directly to show their support for comprehensive legislation. You can do the same on our CancerCampaigns website.

Find out more

Read our position on secondhand smoke, tobacco control and cancer prevention on the tobacco control section of our briefings.