Extract from Westminster Hall debate on Online Harms - Oct 7
Thursday, 8 October 2020 08:29
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Holly Lynch (Halifax) (Lab):...Until a landmark study in the 1950s,
whether a person chose to smoke was nothing to do with Government,
and even when the body of research provided evidence for the link
between tobacco use and lung cancer and other chronic diseases,
Governments were slow to involve themselves in efforts to stop
people smoking, or to get them to smoke less or not to start in the
first place. If we think about where we are now on smoking,
although smoking cessation budgets have...Request free trial
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