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Press Releases Broken down by category
- ASH policy agenda
- Cessation policy
- Advertising and sponsorship
- Taxation
- Smuggling
- Passive smoking
- Smoking and health
- International resources
- Industry conduct
- Product regulation
- Smoking in the workplace
- Smoking in public places
- Youth Smoking
Press Releases by date
December 2002
30/12/2002 New big, bleak health warnings will encourage smokers to quit.
02/12/2002 EU advertising directive has huge loophole - ASH lukewarm
November 2002
21/11/2002 Bar managers like smoke-free areas - nothing to fear from legislation, says ASH
20/11/2002 ASH praises Government strategy on health but the battle to curb smoking continues.
17/11/2002 Licensed to kill: James Bond goes back to smoking
06/11/2002 ASH to press for Bill outlawing passive smoking at work
October 2002
29/10/2002 Government announces new strategy to tackle x-channel smuggling
22/10/2002 Tobacco advertising ban is a huge victory for public health.
05/10/2002 Britain's workers demand the right to smoke-free workplaces: Government inertia hits two year mark.
September 2002
August 2002
29/08/2002 Just a puff can lead to nicotine addiction. Children can get hooked at very low levels of exposure.
22/08/2002 Tobacco sales to children: 1 in 8 retailers still breaking the law.
15/08/2002 Just 3 cigarettes a day is enough to trigger heart disease: women are particularly at risk.
06/08/2002 How Big Tobacco uses and abuses the restaurant trade - new web site: TobaccoScam
July 2002
26/07/2002 Smoking in the workplace: Government procrastinates while workers die.
03/07/2002 BAT social responsibility report - like the Mafia at church, says ASH.
June 2002
19/06/2002 Fears over passive smoking danger in the spotlight again
May 2002
31/05/2002 World No Tobacco Day: BAT weasels its way into World Cup. 180 organisation say 'butt out'
29/05/2002 Hospitality trade in pocket of tobacco industry.
23/05/2002 BAT uses World Cup, English Premier League and top British players to promote smoking in third world
02/05/2002 Imperial profits from smuggling - ASH calls for an inquiry
April 2002
19/04/2002 Smokers less likely to have boys - sperm damage blamed
17/04/2002 Tobacco: Wanless delivers, Chancellor doesn't
11/04/2002 NICE guidance gives boost to smoking cessation drugs
11/04/2002 BAT faces litigation Armageddon after document shredding leads to collapse of Australian cancer case
10/04/2002 1,000 Londoners die from passive smoking - GLA calls for workplace code (ACoP)
March 2002
15/03/2002 Tobacco ad-ban a near-certainty this year as government backs Lords bill
13/03/2002 No Smoking Day release - sheer misery of smoking, in smokers' own words + new web site...
08/03/2002 Smokers: disillusioned with smoking and over-optimistic about quitting. New survey published in BMJ.
07/03/2002 40 Fatal Years - 5 million dead. The 40th anniversary of the RCP 1962 report Smoking and Health.
01/03/2002 Tobacco boss says don't smoke - ASH comments
February 2002
19/02/2002 US judge throws out European Union tobacco smuggling racketeering case on a technicality
13/02/2002 MPs condemn government indifference to childminder smoking
09/02/2002 Death of Princess Margaret - the reality of smoking
05/02/2002 'Defensive and reactionary' Imperial Tobacco face hard questions at AGM
January 2002
18/01/2002 ASH backs Dobson Tobacco Disclosure Bill
09/01/2002 Shock picture cigarette health warnings have ‘amazing impact’ in Canada
