Ministers have been warned they need a big effort to meet their target of reducing the number of smokers in Wales by 2020. Health Minister Lesley Griffiths reiterated plans to ban smoking in cars containing children and young people if a three-year campaign does not work. Public Health Wales and the Welsh government estimates 23% of adults smoked in 2010, with the target at 16%. Ash Wales called for a year-by-year plan to meet the target. Ms Griffiths said the Welsh government would look to further legislation if necessary.
Continue reading the main story “ Start Quote There needs to be a year-on-year plan throughout Wales on how we are going to get down to that 16%” Elen de Lacey Ash Wales "We launched Fresh Start Wales earlier this year to encourage people not to smoke in cars where there are children and young people," she said. "If our media campaign doesn't work we will certainly look to legislation and we have to look at every tool we have available."
Ash says there is a particular need for a cut in deprived areas where more people smoke. Tobacco and Health in Wales, published on Wednesday, found that the number of smokers had fallen considerably since 1978 when 40% of adults in Wales smoked. But it warned that the fall in rates had slowed down in recent years. Jointly produced by the Welsh government, the report pulls together new and existing statistics about smoking. Newly-released figures include the statistic that 27,700 hospital admissions are related to smoking each year in Wales - 5% of the total.
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