Councillor C Hunt to Move
Council welcomes the announcement from the Government on 4th October 2023 around a smokefree generation and the plans to stop a new generation of children and young people getting hooked on such a lethal addiction.
Council also welcomes the subsequent consultation “Stopping the start – a plan to create a Smokefree generation” which has questions around age of sale of tobacco, measures to reduce youth vaping, and enhanced enforcement. Council will continue to encourage smokers to try to quit including by an option of switching over to vaping.
This Council requests that the Director of Public Health, in consultation with the Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Adult and Health Services responds to the government’s consultation supporting the age of sale proposal for tobacco, and on vaping proposing that evidence based measures to tighten the promotion, packaging, branding, pricing of vapes to reduce appeal to children and young people are taken.
Minutes:
The Chair informed Council that there was one Motion for consideration.
Councillor C Hunt Moved the Motion as printed with the addition of the word ‘legal’ at the end of the second paragraph before the word ‘vaping, so the Motion now read as follows:
Council welcomes the announcement from the Government on 4th October 2023 around a smokefree generation and the plans to stop a new generation of children and young people getting hooked on such a lethal addiction.
Council also welcomes the subsequent consultation “Stopping the start – a plan to create a Smokefree generation” which has questions around age of sale of tobacco, measures to reduce youth vaping, and enhanced enforcement. Council will continue to encourage smokers to try to quit including by an option of switching over to legal vaping.
This Council requests that the Director of Public Health, in consultation with the Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Adult and Health Services responds to the government’s consultation supporting the age of sale proposal for tobacco, and on vaping proposing that evidence based measures to tighten the promotion, packaging, branding, pricing of vapes to reduce appeal to children and young people are taken.
Council agreed to the inclusion of the additional word ‘legal’.
Seconded by Councillor Hood, Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Adult and Health Services.
Councillor L Hovvels thanked Councillor Hunt for bringing the Motion.
The Motion, as amended, was Carried.