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Press Releases in category "Product regulation"
October 2007
10/10/2007 Campaigners call on Euro MPs to reduce fire death toll
03/10/2007 ASH endorses RCP call for a tobacco harm reduction strategy.
September 2007
25/09/2007 ASH Media Briefing on the raising of the minimum age for the sale of tobacco on 1 October 2007.
August 2007
29/08/2007 Picture health warnings: UK front runner, other EU countries urged to catch up
June 2007
28/06/2007 Tobacco Giants Fiddle While Homes Burn
April 2007
26/04/2007 750,000 die in UK corporate social responsibility scandal
March 2007
04/03/2007 Public demand Chancellor puts up tobacco tax in Budget
February 2007
06/02/2007 Bigger, bolder health warnings prompt smokers to quit.
January 2007
December 2006
05/12/2006 ASH news release 05/12/2006 - Varenicline: guidance for health professionals.
November 2006
16/11/2006 DTI criticised for 'lukewarm' response on RIP cigarettes - has it been nobbled by tobacco industry
13/11/2006 RIP Coalition calls for new cigarette standard to cut fires.
July 2006
June 2006
07/06/2006 UK Government warned: Do not miss chance to cut cigarette fires.
May 2006
27/05/2006 Picture warnings: A missed opportunity?
March 2006
20/03/2006 Budget 2006 and Smoking: What it Will Say and What it Should Say
February 2006
08/02/2006 BAT deception kept smokers hooked on harmful cigarettes.
December 2005
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
17/10/2005 Great News for Northern Ireland as Smoking Stubbed Out in All Workplaces: Now for England
August 2005
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
15/08/2005 MPs Back Comprehensive Smokefree Law, New Survey Reveals
July 2005
29/07/2005 EU-wide tobacco advertising ban jeopardised by threat of non-compliance by Formula One
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
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
December 2004
16/12/2004 UK ratifies global tobacco treaty: now is the time for a long term strategy to cut tobacco use
September 2004
07/09/2004 EU ruling on smokeless tobacco shows need for independent tobacco regulation
December 2003
05/12/2003 Lancet Article on Smoking Ban: Comment
September 2003
22/09/2003 Tobacco industry deceit on low tar cigarettes revealed
December 2002
30/12/2002 New big, bleak health warnings will encourage smokers to quit.
September 2002
August 2002
22/08/2002 Tobacco sales to children: 1 in 8 retailers still breaking the law.
April 2002
10/04/2002 1,000 Londoners die from passive smoking - GLA calls for workplace code (ACoP)
January 2002
18/01/2002 ASH backs Dobson Tobacco Disclosure Bill
09/01/2002 Shock picture cigarette health warnings have ‘amazing impact’ in Canada
December 2001
November 2001
27/11/2001 Death-knell for ‘light’ cigarettes sounds as tobacco treaty negotiations accelerate in Geneva
July 2001
May 2001
September 2000
13/09/2000 Good to tackle 'pathetic' enforcement of underage cigarette sales law - but don't expect miracles
June 2000
14/06/2000 Health Committee sets new anti-tobacco agenda
12/06/2000 Press briefing on Tobacco Product Directive
March 2000
21/03/2000 Tobacco tax: budget is 'just what the Doctor ordered'
06/03/2000 Smoking still the 'poor relation' in tackling heart disease
February 2000
07/02/2000 Nicotine addiction report is a major broadside on low-tar cigarettes & EU legislation
January 2000
23/01/2000 Genuinely 'less-deadly cigarettes' would help smokers that decide not to quit
20/01/2000 Canadian super-strong health warnings show the way ahead for EU
May 1999
24/05/1999 Fire safe cigarettes
18/05/1999 World Bank report urges Government to take strong measures to curb tobacco
April 1999
27/04/1999 WHO wants to regulate tobacco like food or drugs: save hundreds of thousands of lives
March 1999
18/03/1999 Why low-tar cigarettes don't work & how the tobacco industry fools the smoking public
03/03/1999 The safer cigarette: what the tobacco industry could do (and why it hasen't done it...)
October 1998
28/10/1998 First sex warnings on cigarettes in Thailand
28/10/1998 British Health Groups demand radical change to cigarette & nicotine regulation
27/10/1998 New research shows that health warnings don't work
April 1998
01/04/1998 Why low-tar cigarettes don't work & how the tobacco industry fooled the smoking public
March 1998
08/03/1998 ASH calls for immediate action on low tar cigarettes
