Institute of Licensing’s Written Evidence on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill

The Institute of Licensing’s written evidence on the Tobacco and Vapes Bill has been published by the Public Bill Committee.

The Bill aims to create a smoke-free UK. It is designed to:

create a smoke-free generation, gradually ending the sale of tobacco products across the country and breaking the cycle of addiction and disadvantage;
strengthen the existing powers to ban smoking in public places to reduce harms of passive smoking, particularly around children and vulnerable people;
ban vapes and nicotine products from being deliberately branded, promoted, and advertised to children to stop the next generation from becoming hooked on nicotine;
provide powers to introduce a licensing scheme for the retail sale of tobacco, vapes and nicotine products in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and to extend the retail registration scheme in Scotland, and strengthen enforcement activity to support the implementation of the above measures.