Consultation on draft Tobacco Control Action Plan for Wales

The draft action plan builds on the Welsh Assembly Government’s programme of measures to discourage young people from starting to smoke. It also wants to help support smokers who want to give up and promote smoke-free environments, particularly to protect children and reduce inequalities in health.

To achieve these aims, the draft Action Plan identifies four strategic action areas:

• leadership in tobacco control;
• reducing the uptake of tobacco use, especially amongst children and young people;
• reducing smoking prevalence levels; and
• reducing exposure to second-hand smoke.

The plan identifies a number of actions within each strategic area to help achieve this. The ultimate vision is of a smoke-free society for Wales, in which the harm from tobacco is eradicated.