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Written question asked by Ben Bradley (Conservative) on Tuesday, 14 June 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Thursday, 16 June 2022. It was answered by Maggie Throup (Conservative) on Tuesday, 21 June 2022 on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care.

Tobacco: Research

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the Advancing Our Health: Prevention in the 2020s Green Paper published on 22 July 2019, if he will recommit to undertaking a call for independent research on heated tobacco products.

Answer

The next Vaping in England report, commissioned by the Department, includes a chapter on heated tobacco products. It reviews data on use of these products, the evidence for use in smoking cessation and the exposure of users to major toxicants. The report will be published later this summer. In addition, a systematic review on heated tobacco was published by the Cochrane Collaboration earlier this year, which is available at the following link:

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD013790.pub2/full

No assessment has been made for the introduction of a traffic light system for the relative health impacts on tobacco and nicotine products.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
18029
Session
2022-23
Related items
Advancing our health: prevention in the 2020s
Monday, 22 July 2019
Command papers
House of Lords
House of Commons
Grouped for answer
Yes
Subjects
Preventive medicine Research Tobacco
Link
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