News Article: A Bold U.K. Plan to End the Smoking Epidemic.
Friday, July 15, 2022
Posted by: Natalia Gromov
A new report, independently
commissioned by the Secretary
of State for Health and Social Care of the U.K., provides cutting-edge
recommendations with the aim of achieving a "Smokefree 2030." This reflects
the U.K. government's ambition to reduce the smoking rate from 13.5% to 5% by
the end of this decade. Authored by Javed Khan OBE, MD, and released by the
British government on June 9, 2022, the report, "The Khan Review: Making Smoking Obsolete," assesses
the impact of the public health policies currently in place and finds that, "without further action, England will miss
the smokefree 2030 target by at least 7 years, and the poorest areas in society
will not meet it until 2044."
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