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This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament

Rejected petition Stop the proposed NHS voucher scheme for pregnant women to stop smoking

The voucher scheme to be offered to pregnant women as a reward to stop smoking to be stopped.

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The health of their child should be incentive enough. They should not be rewarding those who don't look after their own health & endanger the health of themselves & others. It will also encourage people to possibly endanger their unborn child to gain access to these vouchers.

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It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

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Offering financial incentives, such as vouchers, to encourage pregnant women to stop smoking would be an operational matter for individual stop-smoking services and NHS healthcare service providers.

This recommendation has been included in draft guidance from Public Health England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). You can read more about this draft guidance on NICE's website:
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/article/nice-and-phe-publish-comprehensive-draft-guideline-to-tackle-the-health-burden-of-smoking

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