Health Bill

I shall give way in a moment. Smoking is already—thank goodness—far less common than it used to be. Many of us can remember when it was the norm for people to spoke in cinemas, on trains and buses and in most factories and offices. Today, smoking is banned on almost all public transport and in many other public places. Thirty years ago, about half of men and almost half of women smoked; today, only one in four people do so. That number is continuing to fall, in part thanks to the excellent smoking cessation services provided on the NHS.