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<p>As announced in the England Tobacco Control Plan published 18 July 2017, the Department
will monitor the impact of regulation and policy on e-cigarettes and novel tobacco
products in England, including evidence on safety, uptake, health impact and effectiveness
of these products as smoking cessation aids, to inform our actions on regulating their
use.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England will continue to provide the evidence annually
on e-cigarettes and other novel nicotine delivery systems until the end of Parliament
in 2022 and will include within quit smoking campaign messages about the relative
safety of e-cigarettes compared to smoking.</p><p> </p><p>The Department has published
guidance on Article 20(5) of the EU Tobacco Products Directive covering restrictions
on advertising electronic cigarettes. That guidance states that “a public health campaign
about relative risks of e-cigarettes versus tobacco products by Public Health England
or local stop smoking services are not advertisements made in the course of a business
and therefore not covered by these restrictions”. The guidance is published here:</p><p><a
href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proposals-for-uk-law-on-the-advertising-of-e-cigarettes/publishing-20-may-not-yet-complete"
target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/proposals-for-uk-law-on-the-advertising-of-e-cigarettes/publishing-20-may-not-yet-complete</a></p><p>The
Government will review where the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union offers
opportunities to re-appraise current regulation to ensure this continues to protect
the nation’s health.</p><p>The Government also has a statutory duty to conduct an
implementation review of the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016 by the
end of May 2021 to assess its impact.</p>
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