Press Releases

December 2005

30/12/2005 Major new poll shows public support across UK for comprehensive smokefree law

28/12/2005 New Years Resolutions

19/12/2005 Health Select Committee Strikes Decisive Blow for Smokefree Legislation

08/12/2005 Raising Smoking Age to 18 “Modestly Useful” - but no Substitute for Comprehensive Workplace Smoking Law

November 2005

25/11/2005 MPs, Trade Bodies, Health Groups, Local Government Unite to Demand Comprehensive Smokefree Law

24/11/2005 Government Publishes Smokefree Consultation Four out of Five Back Comprehensive Ban

October 2005

27/10/2005 Pubs Bodge in Smokefree Law 'Disastrous' for Health Equality and Government Alcohol Strategy

26/10/2005 Smokefree Law Coming: But Pub Bodge Cannot Survive

17/10/2005 Great News for Northern Ireland as Smoking Stubbed Out in All Workplaces: Now for England

14/10/2005 Nicotine Replacement Should be Used to Help Smokers Cut Down as Well as Quit: New Guidance

10/10/2005 ASH Media Briefing: Health Improvement and Protection Bill Smoking in Workplaces and Enclosed Public Places

05/10/2005 WHO report shows that tobacco use is still a major preventable cause of most chronic diseases.

September 2005

26/09/2005 Smokefree legislation ‘It's about health and it's about time' -Labour Party Conference Fringe Meeting

05/09/2005 Health inequalities set to worsen as many pubs would drop food for exemption from smokefree law.

August 2005

31/08/2005 Smoking can cost an arm and a leg as well as raising the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke.

31/08/2005 Ken Clarke's BAT Role Makes Him Unfit for Leadership

24/08/2005 Hospitality Trade Warned of Legal Risk from Secondhand Smoke

22/08/2005 Overwhelming public support for comprehensive smokefree law: new poll reveals.

15/08/2005 MPs Back Comprehensive Smokefree Law, New Survey Reveals

01/08/2005 Health and Safety Commission backs comprehensive smokefree law.

July 2005

29/07/2005 EU-wide tobacco advertising ban jeopardised by threat of non-compliance by Formula One

19/07/2005 Government should back CMO's call to tackle tobacco smuggling and make ALL workplaces smokefree

05/07/2005 Too many councils failing smoking challenge.

05/07/2005 New cancer report shows why smokefree law MUST be comprehensive.

June 2005

20/06/2005 Government consultation document 'opens door' to ending smoking in all workplaces

17/06/2005 ADVANCE MEDIA BRIEFING: Government Consultation on Smoking in Workplaces

May 2005

31/05/2005 ASH news release 31/05/2005 - McTear vs Imperial Tobacco

17/05/2005 Victory over Smoking Bill in Queen's Speech

13/05/2005 Smokefree law expected in Queen's speech

12/05/2005 BMA survey shows need for government to drop pub exemption from smokefree law

10/05/2005 Wales: Assembly Calls for Powers to End Workplace Smoking

April 2005

29/04/2005 Italy: New Far Right Health Minister Moves Against Smoking Restrictions

28/04/2005 BAT in its own words: Tobacco company papers show truth behind greewash

21/04/2005 Election 2005: Parties disagree over smokefree law

March 2005

30/03/2005 Guernsey to go smoke-free: when will the rest of the UK follow suit?

29/03/2005 One Year After Ireland's Smokefree Law: A Story of Success. Now British Public Demands Action

18/03/2005 Health Organisations back important bid for Smokefree Wales

16/03/2005 Budget response: Tax rise welcomed but more action needed to tackle smuggling.

11/03/2005 Budget 2005: Tobacco tax and smuggling

09/03/2005 Public Health White Paper Delivery Plan - a step in the right direction

08/03/2005 Tobacco group talks nonsense on secondhand smoke

02/03/2005 Major new study shows secondhand smoke leading workplace killer

February 2005

24/02/2005 Global Tobacco Treaty to take effect on 27th February.

21/02/2005 Letter Campaign to Support Bid for Smokefree Wales

January 2005

24/01/2005 Wetherspoon lead shows Government is lagging behind the demand for smokefree pubs.

10/01/2005 Press conference to launch Wales smoking bill