ASH response to the consultation on the Merchant Shipping (Prohibition of Smoking on Ships) Regulations - September 2009

ASH's submission to Government in response to the Department of Health's consultation on the future of tobacco control

March 2007: This document sets out ASH's recommendations for tobacco control in the UK, in particular the need for a new 5-year strategic plan. The policy is supported by 15 health organisations.

ASH's letter to the Chancellor on the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007

ASH Briefing for HM Treasury: setting out ideas on how to improve NHS performance management targets for smoking cessation

September 2006: The Nuffield Council on Bioethics held a public consultation on ethical issues in public health. This is ASH's response which focuses on ethical issues to do with smoking and health

ASH argues that public health interventions such as tobacco policies are essential to reduce the burden of disease that the NHS has to cope with. Given how cost-effective smoking policies are, we argue that much more should be spent on them and that a failure to take cost effectiveness into account in the NHS means there are great inefficiencies.

ASH submission supporting the WHO's new proposals

November 1999: ASH and Royal College of Nursing evidence to the Health Select Committee describing how the companies responded to scientific bad news about smoking and health. This draws on numerous confidential tobacco industry documents revealing a history of denial and duplicity.