World No Tobacco Day 2012

The motion

That the Parliament supports World No Tobacco Day 2012, a World Health Organization (WHO) campaign that takes place this year on 31 May, with the theme of Tobacco Industry Interference; notes that the campaign focuses on the need to expose and counter what is considered the tobacco industry’s brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine or subvert worldwide tobacco control efforts; recognises the tactics used by the tobacco industry to shape and influence tobacco control policy, which the WHO considers to be a serious danger to public health; notes that tobacco use is estimated to kill nearly six million people globally each year and remains one of the leading preventable causes of death, and welcomes the progress made in Scotland in encouraging people to stop smoking, as shown by the record number of 108,269 smokers who tried to quit the habit in 2011.

No recorded vote on this motion. Most motions are never debated, and many that are debated are agreed without a division. Vote records are published from 2011.

SNP 32 Lab 5

Party shown is each supporter’s party when the motion was published.

No contribution in the Official Report cites S4M-03119 by reference.