The strategy, which was approved by the council’s cabinet in June, has now become the city’s guiding document for reducing the number of people who smoke.
The scheme outlines Liverpool’s approach toward smoking for the next six years. It aims to tackle the issue on several fronts, from changing attitudes towards smoking to lobbying for legislative change.
The plan is to drive down the proportion of smokers in Liverpool to just five per cent of the population by 2030, from the current level of just over 17 per cent.
The national UK average for people who smoke is 12.9 per cent.
Harry Doyle, cabinet member for health, wellbeing and culture, said, “We make no apologies for aiming towards the highest ambition with this strategy – to make smoking obsolete in Liverpool.
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