A YouGov survey of smokers showed that fewer than one in five understand this risk, raising questions about the investment in government health campaigns in recent years.
On March 9, 2023, MPs will debate the importance of campaigns such as national No Smoking Day and call on the government to explain why it has cut funding for tobacco control, with the worst cuts hitting public health campaigns.
Government funding for No Smoking Day has been cut completely, and total funding for anti-smoking campaigns has been cut by over 95 per cent in real terms in the past 12 years, from £23.3 million in 2008/9 to around £1.32 million in 2020/21 (the last full year data has been made available).
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