Smoking

Our islands face particular challenges around distance, geography, connectivity and demography, so it is important that policy makers consider these properly. The consultation on the guidance will help ensure that islands receive fair treatment tailored to their unique circumstances.

Full analysis of consultation on smoking outside hospitals.

A consultation on the size of no-smoking areas outside hospital buildings, the wording on no-smoking notices and whether specific areas of land or specific buildings should be exempted.The law establishing no-smoking areas and providing for offences and penalties is already in place.

An Official Statistics Publication for Scotland.

Smoking rates fall to 18 per cent

Tobacco-control action plan published.

Five-year action plan setting out interventions and policies to help reduce the use of and associated harms from using tobacco in Scotland.

New poster to signpost services.

Reponses to the Scottish Government's consultation on electronic cigarettes and tobacco control which ran from 10 October 2014 - 2 January 2015.

The strategy sets out a 5 year plan for action across the key themes of health inequalities, prevention, protection and cessation