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915W<br />
Written Answers<br />
1 DECEMBER 2010<br />
Written Answers<br />
916W<br />
Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for Health<br />
with reference to his press statement of 22 November<br />
2010, what the evidential basis was for his statement<br />
that (a) packaging helps to recruit smokers and (b)<br />
that children are being attracted to smoking by glitzy<br />
designs on packets; what plans he has to implement<br />
legislative provisions prohibiting the display in retail<br />
outlets of tobacco product packaging; and if he will<br />
make a statement. [27439]<br />
Anne Milton: A large number of documents, reports<br />
and studies have been published about the effect of<br />
packaging in the marketing and promotion of tobacco<br />
products, and support the statements made by the Secretary<br />
of State.<br />
For example, the RAND Europe study “Assessing<br />
the Impacts of Revising the Tobacco Products Directive”<br />
commissioned by the European Commission Health<br />
and Consumer Directorate-General to support their<br />
assessment of the impacts of revising the Tobacco<br />
Products Directive 2001/37/EC and published in September<br />
2010, includes a section examining the evidence on the<br />
plain or generic packaging of tobacco products.<br />
The RAND report can be found at:<br />
http://ec.europa.eu/health/tobacco/docs/<br />
tobacco_ia_rand_en.pdf<br />
Also, the Australian Government have announced<br />
their intention to introduce a legislative requirement for<br />
the plain packaging of tobacco to commence on 1<br />
January 2012. The evidence supporting their action is<br />
summarised in their technical report “Australia: the<br />
healthiest country by 2020—Technical report 2 Tobacco<br />
Control in Australia”.<br />
The Australian technical report can be found at:<br />
www.preventativehealth.org.au/internet/preventativehealth/<br />
publishing.nsf/Content/tech-tobacco<br />
The Government are looking at options around the<br />
display of tobacco in shops, recognising the need to<br />
take action both to reduce tobacco consumption and to<br />
reduce burdens on businesses. No decisions have yet<br />
been made.