Reducing Levels of Smoking

Part of 2. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 2:22 pm on 27 June 2018.

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Photo of Mohammad Asghar Mohammad Asghar Conservative 2:22, 27 June 2018

Cabinet Secretary, Public Health England recently published its evidence review of e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products. The review states that vaping poses only a small fraction of the risks of smoking and that switching completely from smoking to vaping conveys considerable health benefits over continued smoking. It goes on to say that vaping is at least 95 per cent less harmful than smoking. Does the Cabinet Secretary agree with Public Health England that vaping should be widely encouraged as a way to help people quit smoking in Wales?