article_snippet: Powers to introduce standardised packaging were in passed the Children and Families Act 2014, but MPs must vote on bringing MPs into force.
article_snippet: public health minister Jane Ellison said public health minister Jane Ellison recognised concerns that standardised packaging for cigarettes could be a 'slippery slope' towards a similar approach to other products such as junk food and alcohol.
article_snippet: But public health minister Jane Ellison told MPs: 'The Government has no intention to extend standardised packaging to any other product than Tobacco. '
article_snippet: Ahead of the vote Deborah Arnott, chief executive of health charity ASH, said public health minister Jane Ellison was confident that MPs will vote for the standardised packaging 'by a large majority'. '
article_snippet: public health minister Jane Ellison insists the plan would bring the second country in the worldone step closer to our first smoke-free generation' Cancer Research UK's Alison Cox said: 'The public health community has been united in calling for the introduction of plain, standardised packaging of tobacco products across the UK. '
article_snippet: Plain packaging legislation is an ill-judged sideshow and a distraction from the real challenges the government faces before the end of parliament.'
highlights_snippet: MPs back new law on plain packaging which comes into effect next May .
  