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ASH Daily News

24 October 2000

Headlines
'Genetic test tells which smokers become addicted'
ASH in cigarette butt scandal

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'Genetic test tells which smokers become addicted'

The Independent reports that, 'Scientists have discovered that genes
determine how many cigarettes people smoke each day, and who will become
addicted. A new genetic test for tobacco addiction based on the work by the
British researchers could now revolutionise the success rate for
anti-smoking therapies. Those who want to give up would be able to choose a
treatment that would work for them.'

The article adds, 'Instead of trying different drugs, patches and other
therapies, doctors could use a smoker's DNA to match him or her with the
treatment likely to be most successful. Results of research involving more
than 800 smokers are to be published shortly and will show the test was able
to predict accurately which of them would give up the habit when they used a
nicotine patch.'

Source: The Independent, 24 October 2000
Link:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Health/2000-10/smoker241000.shtml

ASH in cigarette butt scandal

The Daily Telegraph City Diary reports that, 'ASH, the anti-smoking campaign
group, is anxious to explain away the cigarette butts strewn outside its
Clifton Street headquarters. It insists they come from the security firm up
the road, not from its own employees: "They aren't allowed to smoke outside
their own office so they light up outside ours instead."

The diary asks, 'Surely Ash does not follow a non-smokers-only employment
policy? Wouldn't that be against the spanking new euro-charter on human
rights?'

Source: The Daily Telegraph, 24 October 2000
Link:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/et?ac=003685583758639&rtmo=wAinn5ob&atmo=tttttttd
&pg=/et/00/10/24/cxdiary.html#go7