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Guidance and regulation

• Labelling tobacco products and e-cigarettes if there’s no Brexit deal

  Guidance

  14 September 2018

  Department of Health and Social Care

• Use of e-cigarettes in public places and workplaces

  Guidance

  6 July 2016

  Public Health England

• Tobacco products and e-cigarette cross-border sales registration

  Guidance

  30 August 2018

  Public Health England

• Stop smoking options: guidance for conversations with patients
  • Guidance
  • 20 August 2018
  • Public Health England
• Alcohol, drugs and tobacco: commissioning support pack
  • Guidance
  • 27 September 2017
  • Public Health England

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News and communications

One person quits smoking every 80 seconds in England

20 September 2018

Public Health England

Press release

1. Prevention must be the heart of the NHS long-term plan
   • 6 September 2018
   • Public Health England
   • Press release
2. UK ratifies global treaty to tackle illegal tobacco trade
   • 29 June 2018
   • HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs
   • News story
3. PHE bulletin: 3 February 2016
   • 3 February 2016
   • Public Health England
   • Correspondence
4. Chronic smoking-related lung disease blights over 1 million lives in England
   • 29 December 2015
   • Public Health England
   • Press release

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Research and statistics

• Statistics on Smoking Cessation Services in Northern Ireland 2017/18
  • 15 August 2018
  • Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency and Department of Health (Northern Ireland)
  • Official statistics
• Cost of smoking to the NHS in England: 2015
  • 18 July 2017
  • Public Health England
  • Research
• Health inequalities in London
  • 15 October 2015
  • Public Health England
  • Research
• E-cigarettes: an evidence update
  • 28 August 2015
  • Public Health England
  • Research
• Smoking: progressive decline of the body’s major systems
  • 29 December 2014
  • Public Health England
  • Research

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Policy and engagement

• Fees proposals: tobacco and herbal products for smoking 10 March 2017

  Department of Health and Social Care

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 22 November 2016

• Draft regulations on the sale and manufacture of tobacco products 20 May 2016

  Department of Health and Social Care

  Consultation outcome

  Date closed 03 September 2015

• Tobacco control measures overseas
  • 22 August 2017
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper
• E-cigarettes: a developing public health consensus
  • 6 July 2016
  • Public Health England
  • Impact assessment
• 2010 to 2015 government policy: smoking
  • 8 May 2015
  • Department of Health and Social Care
  • Policy paper

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Transparency

• Public Health England Marketing Plan 2013 to 2014
  • 15 April 2013
  • Public Health England
  • Corporate report

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Organisations

1. Department of Health & Social Care
2. Public Health England
3. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street
4. HM Revenue & Customs
5. HM Treasury

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