England may not be ‘smoke-free’ until 2039, cancer charity warns

Government plan to reduce smoking rates in danger of falling a decade behind schedule

England will not be smoke-free" until 2039, missing a key public health target by almost a decade, an analysis has found.

While smoking rates are in decline they are not falling fast enough to realise the government's ambition of England being smoke-free" by 2030, according to Cancer Research UK (CRUK).