Please confirm that the regulations on standardised (“plain”) packaging of cigarettes and tobacco products will be published soon

Smoking related disease remains the main cause of preventable deaths in the UK, killing more than 100 000 people each year. Most smokers start in childhood, and exposure to tobacco marketing is known to increase this risk.1 To protect public health, particularly the health of children at risk of becoming smokers, it is therefore necessary and logical to end the marketing …