The Government will bring in legislation to introduce standardised plain cigarette packaging before the end of this Parliament, health minister Jane Ellison has announced.
The ban on smoking in private cars with children will come into force on October 1 of this year, the minister also announced.
Smoking in private cars carrying children will be banned from October 1 if signed off by Parliament, Health Minister Jane Ellison announced as she outlined the Government's plain packaging legislation.
Ellison said tobacco causes around 80,000 deaths a year and that around 600 children in the UK take up smoking every day.
She said the Government had been taking its time to consider all of the relevant evidence, including the prospect of litigation from the tobacco industry.
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