Written question asked by Peter Bottomley (Conservative), in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Friday, 6 November 1992. It was answered by Lord Mawhinney (Conservative) on Friday, 6 November 1992 on behalf of the Department of Health.

Dept of Health

Question: If she will list for each study examined by her Department of the effect of advertising on tobacco consumption the final year of data, the level of participation in smoking in that year, the present level and the estimated reduction associated with a ban; and what conclusions she has drawn on the effect if these results were replicated in the United Kingdom in the same years; if she will list the information available to her of the year and the level of smoking when an advertising ban was introduced and the levels of smoking in this country in each of those years.

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