The NHS, local government, MPs and peers stand together to commit to a smoke free future

The public health minister was speaking together with local government leaders and senior figures from the NHS at an event in Parliament hosted by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health to mark No Smoking Day.

Together they relaunched the ‘Local government declaration on tobacco control’ and the NHS smoke free pledge [2] – to reflect the government’s commitment to make England smoke free by 2030 and the new services being rolled out to support smokers in the NHS. These are commitments which local organisations can make to show their support for action to reduce smoking. They have been endorsed by leading national figures including chief executive of NHS England, Amanda Pritchard, and chair of the Local Government Association Community Wellbeing Board councillor David Fothergill. The previous versions have been widely signed by over 197 local councils and NHS organisations.