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Press Releases in category "Smoking and health"
February 2010
11/02/2010 Marmot Review of Health Inequalities: Reducing tobacco use is key to narrowing the gap
December 2009
29/12/2009 Tribute to the late David Taylor MP
March 2009
February 2009
20/02/2009 Coronaries and controversy – the impact of smoke-free legislation on coronary heart disease
20/02/2009 Smoking: A greater cause of premature deaths than poverty, Scottish study finds.
May 2008
30/05/2008 YouGov poll shows strong public support for tough measures to protect children from tobacco
January 2008
December 2007
17/12/2007 Babies exposed to secondhand smoke have higher risk of developing allergies.
03/12/2007 Four key public health organisations unite to tackle health inequalities.
03/12/2007 ASH welcomes new Cancer Plan's commitment to tackle smoking.
July 2007
01/07/2007 England goes Smokefree Today: A victory for Public Health
June 2007
28/06/2007 Tobacco Giants Fiddle While Homes Burn
May 2007
31/05/2007 New survey shows 1 in 4 will visit pubs more often after smokefree legislation.
April 2007
26/04/2007 750,000 die in UK corporate social responsibility scandal
March 2007
29/03/2007 Smokers take more sick leave: more evidence of the benefits of going smokefree early.
27/03/2007 Shisha 200 times worse than a cigarette say Middle East experts.
December 2006
05/12/2006 ASH news release 05/12/2006 - Varenicline: guidance for health professionals.
October 2006
09/10/2006 Major Online Mapping Project Shows 'Iron Chain' Between Smoking and Deprivation
02/10/2006 ASH tells Government raising legal age for buying tobacco is not enough.
August 2006
18/08/2006 All forms of tobacco use increase risk of heart attack, worldwide study finds.
July 2006
24/07/2006 Go Smokefree Early: New Advice Site Launched
17/07/2006 ASH Welcomes Smokefree Regulations
June 2006
07/06/2006 Lords economic report is grossly misleading on secondhand smoke risk.
March 2006
23/03/2006 Can't get it up? Forget Viagra and quit smoking instead!
February 2006
15/02/2006 SMOKEFREE WINS THE DAY: GREATEST PUBLIC HEALTH GAIN FOR THIRTY YEARS
January 2006
11/01/2006 ASH welcomes smoking free vote
10/01/2006 Health Select Committee tables all party comprehensive smoking ban amendment
December 2005
28/12/2005 New Years Resolutions
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
05/10/2005 WHO report shows that tobacco use is still a major preventable cause of most chronic diseases.
September 2005
August 2005
24/08/2005 Hospitality Trade Warned of Legal Risk from Secondhand Smoke
15/08/2005 MPs Back Comprehensive Smokefree Law, New Survey Reveals
July 2005
19/07/2005 Government should back CMO's call to tackle tobacco smuggling and make ALL workplaces smokefree
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
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
January 2005
10/01/2005 Press conference to launch Wales smoking bill
December 2004
17/12/2004 Wales: Smoking Bill to be introduced in Commons
16/12/2004 UK ratifies global tobacco treaty: now is the time for a long term strategy to cut tobacco use
November 2004
16/11/2004 White Paper Smoking Plans: Big step forwards for public health. But Pubs “Bodge” Just Won't Work
12/11/2004 Media briefing: Smoking and the public health white paper, a licence to kill?
12/11/2004 Smoking deaths highlight health inequalities.
October 2004
18/10/2004 Leaked Government report shows extent of health damage from secondhand smoke
June 2004
22/06/2004 No health gain for smokers over 50 years
May 2004
28/05/2004 Welcome to Norway: the only thing we smoke here is salmon
March 2004
19/03/2004 Tackling smoking key to progress on cutting cancer deaths.
03/03/2004 Cutting smoking top priority for public health
February 2004
03/02/2004 Tackling tobacco: key to improving public health
November 2003
11/11/2003 Imperial Tobacco's behaviour despicable say ASH
October 2003
20/10/2003 Blow to bootleggers welcomed - but what about the Big Boys?
September 2003
22/09/2003 Tobacco industry deceit on low tar cigarettes revealed
June 2003
16/06/2003 ASH congratulates government for signing historic tobacco treaty
December 2002
30/12/2002 New big, bleak health warnings will encourage smokers to quit.
November 2002
20/11/2002 ASH praises Government strategy on health but the battle to curb smoking continues.
August 2002
29/08/2002 Just a puff can lead to nicotine addiction. Children can get hooked at very low levels of exposure.
15/08/2002 Just 3 cigarettes a day is enough to trigger heart disease: women are particularly at risk.
April 2002
19/04/2002 Smokers less likely to have boys - sperm damage blamed
March 2002
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.
February 2002
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
December 2001
31/12/2001 New Years resolutions… a strategy for smokers: “Don’t quit smoking on New Years day” says ASH
November 2001
27/11/2001 Death-knell for ‘light’ cigarettes sounds as tobacco treaty negotiations accelerate in Geneva
07/11/2001 ASH and the British Dental Association join forces to mark Mouth Cancer Awareness Week.
September 2001
10/09/2001 Nicotine vaccine goes on trial - profound development says ASH, if it can be made to work
August 2001
16/08/2001 Passive smoking at work damages lung function - government must stop dithering on worker protection
May 2001
31/05/2001 New research reveals parents' ignorance of the health impact of passive smoking on children
03/05/2001 China sells itself to BAT putting half a billion women at risk
March 2001
23/03/2001 Why do smokers get more wrinkles? New research explains the aging effects of smoking
14/03/2001 Harder, deeper, longer: experts warn that cutting down can change the way you smoke
February 2001
27/02/2001 Smoking causes lost recruits during military training: Armed forces join the No-Smoking Day effort
September 2000
24/09/2000 Lung cancer overtakes breast cancer in women
11/09/2000 'Cynical' tobacco companies use additives to disguise passive smoking hazards
August 2000
02/08/2000 Quitting smoking works. Doll & Peto study in BMJ
June 2000
04/06/2000 Smoking drags UK down in the world Health League
April 2000
06/04/2000 Press release from the International Agency on Research & Cancer
06/04/2000 Press release from Stanton Glantz
March 2000
21/03/2000 Kids' lungs harmed by tobacco in the womb
06/03/2000 Smoking still the 'poor relation' in tackling heart disease
February 2000
11/02/2000 New analysis of lung cancer
October 1999
28/10/1999 50 Irish pub staff sue: a timely reminder why the UK needs new guidance on passive smoking at work
26/10/1999 Tragedy of needless deaths among young female smokers
August 1999
17/08/1999 New passive smoking study shows alarming stroke risks to non-smokers
June 1999
16/06/1999 WHO experts call for protection for 700 million children exposed to passive smoking
07/06/1999 Letter to Independent re tobacco industry response to smoking & impotence report
02/06/1999 120,000 UK men impotent due to smoking
May 1999
12/05/1999 Smoker versus hospital case
April 1999
March 1999
18/03/1999 Why low-tar cigarettes don't work & how the tobacco industry fools the smoking public
16/03/1999 Smoking heart victim: out of court settlement
03/03/1999 The safer cigarette: what the tobacco industry could do (and why it hasen't done it...)
February 1999
02/02/1999 Cocaine addicts confuse drug impact of nicotine
November 1998
23/11/1998 Smoking
October 1998
28/10/1998 First sex warnings on cigarettes in Thailand
September 1998
10/09/1998 Smoking in pregnancy: NHS fails women
July 1998
27/07/1998 Smoking may reduce penis size: time for the Viagra patch?
April 1998
30/04/1998 Secret docs confirm tobacco giant kept smoking dangers from pregnant women
27/04/1998 Cancer gene research exciting, but don't bet your life on a miracle cure
February 1998
12/02/1998 Lung cancer victims win first skirmish with tobacco companies
December 1997
16/12/1997 Ads show truth about smoking
15/12/1997 Nicotine inhaler should be available on the NHS
October 1997
17/10/1997 New evidence on risks of passive smoking
17/10/1997 Passive smoking: summary of new findings from California EPA report
17/10/1997 Health effects of environmental tobacco smoke
10/10/1997 Parents' smoking causes lung illness in children - new evidence of link
August 1997
19/08/1997 World Conference on Tobacco or Health. Beijing.
April 1997
16/04/1997 Win for mail order cigarettes could spell disaster for health & wealth of UK
November 1996
26/11/1996 Chancellor heeds health calls on cigarettes
