Health Inequalities

i was proud to make a lot of progress on smoking policy when i was health secretary. A we introduced plain paper packaging and the display sale of cigarettes. And what i learnt from that about public health is that these things take a very long time, but you can get momentum. Something like abesity, you need to change norms. We need to deal with the fact that often the cheapest food can be the least healthy. But people on low incomes might need it too to fill themselves up. You've got to think about income inequality as well, and housing and all these other things. So a, it's definitely achievable. Other countries have got less of a gap in a life expectancy between