Please see the following documentation regarding the
PUBLIC CONSULTATION ON CREATING A SMOKEFREE GENERATION AND TACKLING YOUTH VAPING
Northern Ireland is included in a public consultation, launched recently by the Prime Minister, on smoking and vaping. This eight-week UK-wide consultation covers proposals to make it illegal for anyone born on or after 1 January 2009 to ever be sold tobacco products at any point in their lives. The consultation also includes a series of proposals to clamp down on the sale and use of vapes by children and young people, including restrictions on flavours, display, packaging, and disposable vapes.
Comments in response to the public consultation are welcome from anyone, of any age, in Northern Ireland and may be accessed at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/creating-a-smokefree-generation-and-tackling-youth-vapingLinks to the Department of Health press statement and UK Government command paper are below.
• https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/news/statement-uk-wide-public-consultation-tobacco-and-vaping
• Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation
Margaret Rose McNaughton, Director of Transport & Food in Schools, would encourage you to respond to this consultation and to circulate amongst your school, pre-school or Early Years community as this is an important issue for children and young people in Northern Ireland. Consultation responses will help provide evidence to consider whether similar proposals should be developed in NI to clamp down on the sale and use of vapes by children and young people.
The consultation will close for comments on 6 December 2023 at 11:59pm.
