Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation (update)

Published 4 October 2023

Last updated 8 November 2023 — See all updates

Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation

Annex 1: modelling assumptions

Annex 2: local stop smoking services: methodology for allocating indicative funding to local authorities

Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation

Annex 1 - modelling assumptions

Annex 2 - local stop smoking services: methodology for allocating indicative funding to local authorities

See updated funding allocations on the Local stop smoking services and support: additional funding page.

See the Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vapingconsultation.

The consultation closes at 11:59pm on 6 December 2023.

Smoking is the single most entirely preventable cause of ill health, disability and death in the UK. This publication sets out proposed action the government will take to protect future generations from the harms of smoking, by creating the first smokefree generation.

It also sets out wider measures to support existing smokers to quit smoking, crack down on youth vaping and ensure the law is enforced.