{"id":30124,"date":"2025-04-22T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=30124"},"modified":"2025-04-17T16:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T15:31:53","slug":"a-roadmap-to-a-smokefree-country-new-report-calls-for-bold-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2025\/04\/22\/a-roadmap-to-a-smokefree-country-new-report-calls-for-bold-action\/","title":{"rendered":"A Roadmap to a Smokefree Country: New Report Calls for Bold Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health has released its 2025 report, <em>A Roadmap to a Smokefree Country<\/em>, outlining urgent steps to end smoking in the UK within a generation. Central to the plan is a proposed &#8216;polluter pays&#8217; levy on tobacco companies, aiming to raise \u00a3700 million annually to fund cessation programs and reduce health inequalities. The report also recommends stricter regulations on youth vaping and a cap on tobacco industry profits. With smoking remaining a leading cause of preventable illness and death, the report urges all political parties to commit to a fully funded, long-term strategy to make smoking obsolete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full report: <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/ash.org.uk\/uploads\/APPG-on-Smoking-and-Health-Report-2025-Web-Version.pdf\">A Roadmap to a Smokefree Country \u2013 APPG on Smoking and Health<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health has released its 2025 report, A Roadmap to a Smokefree Country, outlining urgent steps to end smoking in the UK within a generation. Central to the plan is a proposed &#8216;polluter pays&#8217; levy on tobacco companies, aiming to raise \u00a3700 million annually to fund cessation programs and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2025\/04\/22\/a-roadmap-to-a-smokefree-country-new-report-calls-for-bold-action\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Roadmap to a Smokefree Country: New Report Calls for Bold Action&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9,71,142,186,214,217,221,245,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addiction","category-advocacy","category-drugs-substance-misuse","category-mental-health-healthy-lifestyles","category-physical-health","category-quality-of-life","category-recovery","category-relapse-prevention","category-smoking-cessation","category-stigma"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30125,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30124\/revisions\/30125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}