Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his policies of the US's Food and Drug Administration decision to give snus the status of a reduced risk product in the United States.

The Department has made no assessment. The sale of oral tobacco is banned in the United Kingdom under the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016. The Department continues to monitor developments in tobacco use across the world. Evidence shows that the consumption of any tobacco product is harmful and it is the Government’s policy to help people quit tobacco.