Publication - Strategy/plan

Tobacco and vaping framework: roadmap to 2034

Published: 22 November 2023
From: Minister for Public Health and Women's Health
Directorate: Population Health Directorate
Part of: Building a new Scotland, Health and social care, Programme for Government
ISBN: 9781835214299

This focuses on both tobacco and vaping and sets our direction to 2034. It also includes the first implementation plan, which will run until November 2025.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

Tobacco (who.int)

1. Key points - ScotPHO

2. Key points - ScotPHO

3. Adult smoking habits in the UK - Office for National Statistics

4. The Scottish Health Survey provides basis for main indicator used in Scotland to track smoking prevalence with latest data indicating 11% of adults current smokers (see section 4.1). ONS data is used here as this is main data source for UK comparison across the four Nations

5. Key points - ScotPHO

6. Effect of tobacco smoking on survival of men and women by social position: a 28 year cohort study | The BMJ

7. Tobacco Control Strategy - Creating a Tobacco-Free Generation

8. Programme for Government 2023 to 2024

9.Scottish Health Survey 2021: supplementary tables

10. Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation is a relative measure of deprivation across 6,976 small areas (called data zones): Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020 SIMD 1 represents the most deprived areas and SIMD 5 the least deprived.

11. The Scottish Health Survey 2021 - volume 1: main report

12. Antenatal booking in Scotland - Calendar year ending 31 December 2022 - Antenatal booking in Scotland - Publications - Public Health Scotland

13. E Cigarettes Latest Trends - Graphs - Smoking in Scotland (smokinginscotland.info)

14. Cochrane Review

15. University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Health & Wellbeing - Research - MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit - Research - Complexity in health - Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Scotland Study

16. Nicotine vaping in England: an evidence update including health risks and perceptions, September 2022 (publishing.service.gov.uk)

17. WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic 2021: addressing new and emerging products

18. Health Scotland review of creating a tobacco free generation - A tobacco control policy for Scotland

19. Revision of the Tobacco Products Directive (europa.eu)

20. Raising Scotland's tobacco-free generation: our tobacco control action plan 2018

21. Fuller detail is included in Annex A.

22. Smoke Free Prisons Pathway (healthscotland.scot)

23. Data on Vaping among Children - Vaping - understanding prevalence and trends among adults and children: research

24. Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping: your views - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

25. The Khan review: making smoking obsolete and Smokefree Aotearoa 2025 Action Plan | Ministry of Health NZ

26. Eleventh Citizens' Panel report | HIS Engage

27. The 'current smoker' category excludes those who reported only smoking cigars or pipes.

28. Deprivation is assessed using the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.

29. Antenatal booking in Scotland

30. Table3_maternal_smoking-2021-22 now reported on a calendar basis in Antenatal booking in Scotland

31. Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children 2018 (HBSC)Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children 2022 (HBSC) Scotland Study

32. See section 5.5 on improvements to indicators.

33. The experimental Health and Wellbeing Census Scotland 2021- 2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) is currently a 3-year cycle and the Smoking in Scotland Toolkit reports quarterly on prevalence for 16 to 18 year olds but the sample size is very small. One priority for the work on developing further indicators will be to investigate ways to provide more frequent data as discussed in section 5.5.

34. Review of smoking cessation services in Scotland - Advisory Group report - Review of smoking cessation services in Scotland - Publications - Public Health Scotland

35. Pack Inserts Consultation document - UK Government

36. Mandating quit information messages inside tobacco packs

37. Public Health Service Poster - January 2023 — Community Pharmacy Scotland (cps.scot)

38. Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping

39. Tobacco (who.int)

40. Tobacco 21 | FDA

41. MOH | News Highlights

42. Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act | Ministry of Health NZ

43. Malaysia To Ban Cigarettes For Anyone Born After 2005 - CodeBlue (galencentre.org)

44. Creating a smokefree generation and tackling youth vaping: your views - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

45. The age of 18 was selected to ensure that there was equivalence between the age of sale of tobacco and the age of sale of vapes.