Tobacco
(asked on 29th January 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what advice he has received from Public Health England on heat-not-burn tobacco products as a result of the conclusions of the 2016 Annual Report of the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment, published in August 2017.
On 12 December 2017, the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment, the Committee on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment and the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment published their joint statement on the relative risk from using heat not burn novel tobacco products notified in the United Kingdom, compared to the risk from smoking conventional cigarettes. It is available here:
The products continue to be regulated as tobacco products. As outlined in the Tobacco Control Plan the Government will monitor the impact of regulation and policy on e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products in England (including evidence on safety, uptake, the health impact and effectiveness of these products as smoking cessation aids) to inform our actions and regulate their use. Public Health England will also update its evidence base on e-cigarettes and novel tobacco products annually until the end of the Parliament in 2022. The next report is due to be published in February.