Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Health and Social Services – in the Senedd at 3:34 pm on 13 March 2019.
People regularly ask how the transformation fund can be used to support a different range of activities. I think this is straightforward public health work, and how we support people to quit, how we have healthier messages about not taking up smoking in the first place, and then how we support people to reduce and then stop smoking as well. Our vision is to have a smoke-free society, and there are various stages to that point. I'm interested, as I said in answer to earlier questions, in the evidence base about what is the most effective smoking cessation service, and what is the most effective way to have the conversation about smoking, and the impact that has, not just on the person who is smoking, but people around them, to try to persuade more and more people to take action and to quit. Then it's about how we help people. And of course, it is entirely appropriate that your question is asked today, on what I recognised earlier is No Smoking Day.