Alcoholic Drinks and Smoking: Sales
Commons · Question 31029 · Tabled 12 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 28 Feb 2025
Question
Asked by Lee Anderson
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for her policies of trends in the level of illegal sales of (a) tobacco, (b) vape and c) alcohol products.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 28 Feb 2025
Evidence shows that when we have introduced targeted tobacco control measures, they have had a positive impact on tackling the problems of illicit tobacco. When the age of sale was increased from 16 to 18 years old in 2007, this created 1.3 million more p...