Thank you very much for those questions. I’ll begin where you finished in terms of talking about collaboration with other organisations with a keen interest in this area. ASH Wales have been funded for three years to support us in the delivery of our plan, but they play a really important role as well in terms of having wider discussions with all of those people with an interest in tobacco control in Wales—across the third sector as well. So, there is good dialogue, I think, in terms of all of those organisations who have an interest. And also, at the back of the delivery plan you’ll be able to see a list of all of the members of the tobacco control delivery board, and also the sub-groups that support that work, and I hope that you’d agree that they are a diverse section who do capture the views of our society in that regard.

You were right to remind us, actually, that smoking is an awful addiction because, I think, as a non-smoker it’s often quite easy to forget that actually it is a real addiction. It’s an extremely expensive addiction, and six out of 10 smokers actually at the moment, today, would like to give up. So we need to be there to support those six out of 10 and also to provide the right messages and education for the other four in terms of helping them understand the damage and then make choices in that regard.

You did mention the work that’s going on in prisons; it has been very successful in terms of the fact that prisons now in Wales are all smoke free. I’m really keen to ensure that, when Welsh-domiciled prisoners are released from prison back into the community, that they actually still have support to stay on that smoke-free journey, and that’s reflected in our action plan as well.

You mentioned, as others have done, the importance of supporting parents to give up smoking. We know that, as I mentioned earlier, children who see their parents smoke are much more likely to take up smoking themselves, and the latest research shows that most adult smokers actually start smoking before the age of 18. So, the parental role and the parental role models are a really important factor in this as well.

Second-hand smoke is an extremely important issue as well, and you did talk about the danger that that can pose to children and young people. One of the big successes, I think, has been the ban on smoking in cars with children. I think it has been well observed as a ban because it’s a difficult thing, as you can imagine, in terms of policing that ban, but it has been well observed. And I suppose those kinds of culture changes, you know, it takes a while to change culture, but actually I think we are getting there now with a multipronged approach, with many partners working together.