Smoking and health 2021: a coming of age for tobacco control?

Smoking and health 2021: a coming of age for tobacco control? This report reviews the UK’s progress in reducing smoking prevalence, and sets out comprehensive recommendations for England’s forthcoming National Tobacco Control Plan. It says that while the reduction in smoking prevalence by 75 per cent since 1962 has been considered a national success, if the policies advocated by the RCP in 1962 had been adopted and followed through, smoking would have been eradicated from the UK years ago. Royal College of Physicians