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ASH News and Events Bulletin - 16-31 August 2011

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  • Australia: Plain packaging ban passes first parliamentary stage

    Australia is poised to become the first nation to require tobacco products to be sold in plain packages.

    The law was passed by the lower house on 24 August and will go to the Senate in September. If passed, the legislation will ban logos and colour variations on cigarette packages. Packets will have to be olive green from 1 January 2012.

    Source: Bloomberg - 25 August 2011
    Link: http://bloom.bg/pwK6Ae

  • Films that 'encourage smoking' claim £338m in UK tax credits

    Health experts have accused the government of spending more on subsidising American films that contain smoking scenes than on anti-tobacco campaigns.

    Researchers at Imperial College London calculated that between 2003 and 2009, £338m of tax credits in Britain went to US-produced films with imagery "promoting" tobacco use.

    Foreign film-makers receive 16% tax relief against their British production costs if more than a quarter of their budget is spent in Britain. More than three-quarters of British film subsidies go to US production companies.

    Source: The Guardian - 27 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/oyhYHH

  • BMJ raises concern over the “powerful sway” of industry ahead of UN health summit

    The British Medical Journal (BMJ) has raised serious concerns about the “powerful sway” of tobacco, alcohol, food and drug industries as international governments prepare to agree global targets to cut avoidable deaths from chronic diseases.

    In September, world leaders will meet at the United Nations in New York for a high level summit on non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

    The meeting will focus on four conditions - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and respiratory diseases - that together cause more than half of all deaths in low and middle income countries, yet account for less than 3% of global health aid.

    They also share common risk factors – tobacco use, unhealthy diet, lack of physical activity and abuse of alcohol – making them largely preventable.

    Hopes are high that the meeting will mark a turning point in tackling these diseases, but as BMJ investigations editor, Deborah Cohen discovers, there is a risk that commercial interests could undermine any commitments made at this crucial meeting.

    Source: BMJ - 24 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/nQ2Xsw

  • The truth about social smoking

    Surely just one or two cigarettes a day can't do us much harm – can they? Jeremy Laurance stubs out some medical myths

    Source: The Independent - 30 August 2011
    Link: http://ind.pn/nrG95S

  • How safe is tobacco that melts in your mouth?

    Big name tobacco brands are increasing their presence in the dissolvable tobacco market, and consumers in test markets, as well as regulators, are trying to figure out what to make of the new products.

    Source: TIME - 19 August 2011
    Link: http://ti.me/qaS5hK

  • Your nose knows: the invisible threat of 'thirdhand smoke'

    The Indiana University Health medical center has upgraded its policy: Employees are now prohibited from smoking during the workday.

    The impetus for the new rule is the recently recognized dangers of "thirdhand smoke," the gases and particles that cling to clothing, hair, furniture, walls and other surfaces long after a cigarette is stubbed out.

    Source: Huffington Post - 26 August 2011
    Link: http://huff.to/rivnaU

  • British Heart Foundation calls for plain packaging

    Cigarette packaging has been thrown back into the limelight after a study last week showed that women are 25% more likely to develop heart disease from smoking than men.

    Following the publication of the findings in The Lancet, the British Heart Foundation said that the figures proved the need to reduce the attraction of smoking by bringing forward rules on plain packaging.

    The study speculated that the difference could be related to physiological differences or cigarette smoke toxins having a more potent effect on women.

     British Heart Foundation senior cardiac nurse Ellen Mason said: “This is very timely research as tobacco companies are increasingly targeting women with slim brands and slick packaging. Introducing plain packaging would help to increase the effectiveness of health warnings and reduce the attractiveness and appeal of tobacco products.”

    Source: Packaging News, 15 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/pFzI9t

  • Outdoor smoking ban: Richard Vize opinion piece

    In an opinion piece, Richard Vize, former editor of the Health Service Journal, rejects calls for a ban on smoking in public places to be extended to outdoor areas.

    The localism bill includes a “power of general competence” allowing councils to act in the interests of their communities. A few councils are examining whether they could use this power to extend the smoking ban to playgrounds, parks, sports venues, and even streets.

    They are following the lead of New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, who extended the city’s smoking ban to parks, beaches, plazas, and golf courses. In England the first battleground in the new hostilities over smoking has been the historic town of Stony Stratford. 

    Elsewhere there has been more success for voluntary bans aimed at protecting children. Councils such as Hackney, Pendle and parts of Wiltshire have put up no smoking signs in children’s playgrounds.

    Vize agress with ASH's suggestion that councils should talk to mothers about how best to protect children from smoke, conclusding that: "After all, there is not much point in keeping a playground smoke free if parents then poison their kids by having a cigarette in the car on the way home".

    Source: BMJ - 24 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/qifiO7

  • Northern Ireland: Tobacco display ban set for spring

    Health minister Edwin Poots announced that a ban on displaying cigarettes in shops will not begin until next spring at the earliest, and that he will be introducing regulations to implement the ban as soon as possible. The ban was originally planned to take effect from October this year.

    Mr Poots also announced that a ban on sale of tobacco from vending machines will take effect from 1 February next year.

    Source: Belfast Telegraph - 23 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/qIET5N

  • Councils criticised over tobacco shares

    Kent County Council (KCC) has been criticised for investing nearly £24m in four tobacco firms as part of its pension fund portfolio.

    It has invested about £13.5m in the Altria Group, £3.6m in Philip Morris £3.5m in Imperial Tobacco and £3.4m in Japan Tobacco.

    The authority said the amount was 1% of all its investments and it had a duty to get the best return for its members.

    Critics have said the council should avoid such companies.

    Martin Dockrell, ASH's Director of Policy and Research, said although the council was legally obliged to get the best return for investors it was not obliged to invest in tobacco.

    He added: "Kent is definitely at the upper end of the scale.

    "We are aware of many councils and even NHS trusts that have invested in tobacco companies, one or two, but to have four such large investments is quite extraordinary.

    "Share prices are high right now but the future for tobacco companies is grim with falling sales, tougher legislation and law suits from around the world. Now could be a good time to cash in those shares and invest in something more sustainable."

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    Hackney Council has also admitted that it invests millions of pounds in the tobacco industry, despite also promoting several initiatives designed to combat smoking in the borough.

    According to the Council’s own figures, about 1.3% of its pension fund is invested in tobacco stocks, including British American Tobacco and Imperial Tobacco. These investments represent about £10.5 million.

    At the same time, the Council’s Health in Hackney Scrutiny Commission is looking at “what more can be done to reduce smoking at a local level.” Measures include a decision to make a local park’s play area and paddling pool a no smoking zone, and support to a national film competition designed to encourage young people not to smoke.

    Source: Hackney Citizen - 18 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/puZaUF

  • BAT Zimbabwe unit warns over policy risk

    Cigarette manufacturer British American Tobacco's Zimbabwe unit has warned that an uncertain policy environment threatens future investment, despite signs of economic recovery in the southern African country.

    The company, in which BAT Plc controls nearly 60 percent of the shares, is one of several foreign-owned companies given a 14-day deadline to submit new plans on how they would achieve local majority control under a 2008 empowerment law.

    Source: Reuters - 29 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/quOiUx

  • Indonesia: dying-better-than-leaving-friend cigarette ad has anti-tobacco lobby fuming

    The Southeast Asia Tobacco Control Alliance (SEATCA) is seeking the dismantling of ads by Indonesian tobacco firm PT Sampoerna that, it said, “brings cigarette marketing to a new low”.

    The billboard advertisement says: “Dying is better than leaving a friend; Sampoerna is a cool friend”. This, said SEATCA, is an “irresponsible advertisement and the Philip Morris International (PMI)-owned company must be held accountable for its despicable lack of sensibility”.

    SEATCA Director Ms. Bungon Ritthiphakdee said: “It is very irresponsible to say such a horrible thing, especially as the aim is just to sell cigarettes. First of all, it is ludicrous to call a hazardous product that kills half its users a ‘friend’. It is simply despicable for PT Sampoerna to trash the Indonesian people in this manner. ”

    The anti-tobacco alliance said the ad is “clearly . . . directed at young people”.
     

    Source: InterAksyon - 25 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/rcql8X

  • Philip Morris Singapore acquitted of unlawful cigarette advertising

    Tobacco company Philip Morris Singapore has been acquitted of the second of two charges of unlawfully advertising cigarettes.

    Had it been convicted of the offences, the firm could have been fined a maximum of S$10,000 for each charge.

    According to the law, cigarettes can only be displayed in outlets that are licensed to do so.

    Philip Morris was accused of unlawfully displaying five packets of Marlboro cigarettes on Sep 25, 2009.

    Source: Today Online - 19 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/nbeWAv

  • Russia: Teenage cigarette scandal

    A tobacco factory in the southern Russian town of Rostov-on-Don has come up with an ingenious way to rake in some profits ahead of the government’s proposed smoking ban – by rebranding its image to be more appealing to young girls.

    Source: Moscow News - 25 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/qTRSa7

  • Tobacco companies in Philippines play dirty legal game

    James Cordova explains how dirty tobacco companies in the Philippines have become. 

    The Philippine government, particularly the local government units and such agencies like the Metro Manila Development Authority (MDDA), has been launching an anti-smoking campaign around the country. This is not to ban cigarettes altogether but just to designate areas where smokers can smoke.

    According to Cordova, the plan may have been to have somebody file a case against the tobacco regulation in court, hoping that would set off a chain of events that could end up with the court deciding against the MMDA, which is, he says, exactly what happened.

    Source: Asian Correspondent - 19 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/o646Bx

  • Tobacco companies use corporate responsibility for political purposes

    Tobacco companies may be using corporate social responsibility programmes to gain access to politicians, influence agendas, and shape public health policy to best suit their own interests according to an article in PLoS Medicine by Gary Fooks from the University of Bath's Tobacco Control Research Group.

    In a detailed case study of publicly available British American Tobacco documents, the authors illustrate how the company used its corporate social responsibility programme in its dialogue with policy-makers to influence the priorities of public and elected officials in the UK.

    The authors argue that their findings underline the need for broad implementation of Article 5.3 of the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control which aims to protect public-health policies on tobacco control from tobacco industry influence. 

    Source: Medical Xpress - 23 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/o0ps0e

  • Attitudes to NRT and smokeless products - 4 country study

    Abstract
    Background: Evidence shows that smokers are generally misinformed about the relative harmfulness of nicotine, and smokeless forms of nicotine delivery in relation to smoked tobacco. This study explores changing trends in the beliefs about the harmfulness and use of stop smoking medications and smokeless tobacco in adult smokers in four countries where public education and access to alternative forms of nicotine is varied (Canada, the US, the UK and Australia).

    Methods: Data are from seven waves of the ITC-4 country study conducted between 2002 and 2009 with adult smokers from Canada, the US, the UK and Australia. For the purposes of this study, data were collected from 21,207 current smokers. Using generalised estimating equations to control for multiple response sets, multivariate models were tested to look for main effects of country, and trends across time, controlling for demographic variables.

    Results: Knowledge remained low in all countries, although UK smokers tended to be better informed. There was a small but significant improvement across time in the UK, but mixed effects in the other three countries. At the final wave, between 37.5% (US) and 61.4% (UK) reported that NRT is a lot less harmful than cigarettes. In Canada and the US, where smokeless tobacco is marketed, only around one in six believed some smokeless tobacco products could be less harmful than cigarettes.

    Conclusions: Many smokers continue to be misinformed about the relative safety of nicotine and alternatives to smoked tobacco, especially in the US and Canada. Concerted efforts to educate UK smokers have probably improved their knowledge. Further research is required to assess whether misinformation deters smokers from appropriate use of alternative forms of nicotine.

    Borland, R. et al., Trends in beliefs about the harmfulness and use of stop-smoking medications and smokeless tobacco products among cigarettes smokers: Findings from the ITC four-country survey, Harm Reduction Journal 2011, 8:21 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-8-21

    Source: Harm Reduction Journal - 23 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/oYaAoE

  • Cancer patients' beliefs

    Abstract
    Objective: To analyze Australian cancer patients’ beliefs about factors contributing to the development of their cancer.

    Methods: As part of a case–control study (The Cancer Council NSW Cancer, Lifestyle and Evaluation of Risk Study), a total of 2,857 cancer patients (open to all types of cancer) were surveyed and via an open-ended question, were asked to specify factors they think contributed to the development of their cancer. Qualitative analysis and categorical techniques were used to analyze the data.

    Results: About half, 53%, of patients specified at least one contributing factor. The odds of a person specifying a contributing factor increased with time period since diagnosis (p = 0.0006). Patients most frequently specified, respectively: “Stress” (15.4%), “Genetics/hereditary” (10.9%) and “Smoking” (6.2%). Among factors specified the largest proportion (24.1%) was perceived to be “Non-modifiable.”

    Conclusion: Cancer patients specified a broad range of factors and agents to which their disease may be attributed. Some of these were poorly correlated with epidemiological rankings of attributable risk factors. The role of psychosocial and genetic factors was overstated. Misconceptions regarding the causes of cancer are a key consideration of health professionals when devising communication strategies around cancer prevention.

    Willcox, S., et al., What factors do cancer patients believe contribute to the development of their cancer? (New South Wales, Australia), Cancer Causes and Control. DOI: 10.1007/s10552-011-9824-6

    See also: Cancer patients in denial over poor lifestyle choices - Sydney Morning Herald

    Source: SpringerLink - 12 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/oklIYN

  • E-cigarettes perspectives

    Abstract
    Background: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs) have experienced a rapid growth in popularity but little is known about how they are used.

    Aim: The aim of this study was to identify the e-cig products used by experienced e-cig users, their pattern of e-cig use and the impact on tobacco use.

    Method: Face-to-face survey of 104 experienced e-cig users.

    Results: Of all the e-cig users, 78% had not used any tobacco in the prior 30 days. They had previously smoked an average of 25 cigarettes per day, and had tried to quit smoking an average of nine times before they started using e-cigs. Two-thirds had previously tried to quit smoking using an FDA-approved smoking cessation medication. The majority of the sample had used e-cigs daily for at least a year. Three quarters started using e-cigs with the intention of quitting smoking and almost all felt that the e-cig had helped them to succeed in quitting smoking. Two-thirds used e-cig liquid with a medium to high concentration of nicotine (13 mg +). Only 8% were using the most widely sold types of cigarette-sized e-cigs that are typically powered by a single 3.7 volt battery. Instead most used e-cigs designed to enable the atomizer to more consistently achieve a hotter more intense vapour.

    Conclusion: Until we have more evidence on the safety and efficacy of e-cigs for smoking cessation, smokers should be advised to use proven treatments (e.g. counselling and FDA-approved medicines). However, for those who have successfully switched to e-cigs, the priority should be staying off cigarettes, rather than quitting e-cigs.

    Foulds J., et al., Electronic cigarettes (e-cigs): views of aficionados and clinical/public health perspectives, International Journal of Clinical Practice. 2011 Aug 1. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2011.02751.x.

     

    Source: Wiley Online Library - 01 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/rh1FSn

  • Point of sale and the purchase of cigarettes

    Abstract
    Aims: To assess the impact of retail displays of tobacco on tobacco smoking and purchase by smokers and attempting quitters.
    Design: Population based diary style survey

    Setting: NSW, Australia

    Participants: 998 smokers and 111 attempting quitters.

    Measurements: Demographic measures and four-hourly records over four days: number of cigarettes smoked and bought; exposure to cigarette smoking by friends/family or other smokers, and exposure to retail displays of tobacco.

    Findings:  Subjects reported seeing cigarettes for sale in more than 40% of the time periods when they were outside their home. After allowing for factors which are known to increase smoking, people who saw cigarettes for sale were more likely to smoke, and smoked more cigarettes, even if they did not buy cigarettes in the same time period. There was marginally significant evidence that people exposed to retail displays of tobacco in one time period were more likely to buy in the following time period.

    Conclusions: In a environment which permits point-of-sale displays, smokers were found to see tobacco displays in more than 40% of the four-hour periods that they were outside the home. Exposure to such tobacco displays was associated with a higher probability of smoking, and with higher levels of smoking, even when subjects did not purchase cigarettes.

    Burton, S., et al., The association between seeing retail displays of tobacco and tobacco smoking and purchase: findings from a diary style survey, Addiction, Accepted Article 

    Source: Wiley Online Library - 20 July 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/qibciM

  • Tobacco retail display experience in NZ

    Abstract
    Background Tobacco companies have opposed the removal of tobacco retail displays, arguing this would compromise retailers' safety, increase retail crime, reduce retailers' income, impose additional costs and be inconvenient. These arguments have successfully delayed policy development in several jurisdictions.

    Methods In-depth interviews conducted with New Zealand retailers who had voluntarily removed tobacco from open display in their stores.

    Results Retailers who had removed tobacco displays did so primarily to reduce their security risk and found their stores had become less vulnerable to retail crime. They did not find removing displays costly or inconvenient nor had this decision significantly reduced their revenue.

    Conclusions Removing in-store tobacco displays may increase rather than decrease store safety. Our findings reveal that retailers' experiences differed in many ways from tobacco companies' predictions and suggest that industry arguments against display removal lack objective support and are self-serving.  

    Hoek, J., et al., Tobacco retail displays: a comparison of industry arguments and retailers' experiences, Tobacco Control 2011
     

    Source: BMJ - 17 August 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/rq8GGU

  • Varenicline review

    Abstract
    Introduction: This review examines the postmarketing experience with varenicline, including case reports, newer clinical trials and secondary analyses of large clinical datasets.

    Areas covered: Varenicline has been shown to be an effective treatment in a broad range of tobacco users with medical, behavioral and diverse demographic characteristics. Recent studies finding excellent safety and efficacy in groups of smokers with diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease are particularly encouraging and call for increased use of this medication for smoking cessation. Despite case reports of serious neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients taking varenicline, including changes in behavior and mood, causality has not been established. Recent analyses of large datasets from clinical trials have not demonstrated that varenicline is associated with more depression or suicidality than other treatments for smoking cessation.

    Expert opinion: Now that additional clinical trials in specific populations and observational studies on treatment-seeking smokers outside of clinical trials have been published, we can be confident that varenicline remains the most efficacious monotherapy for smoking cessation and that its side-effect profile remains good. The risk-to-benefit ratio of receiving varenicline to quit smoking must include the increased chances of quitting smoking and avoiding the sizeable risks of smoked-caused disease and death that remain if tobacco addiction is not properly treated.

    Williams JM., et al., Varenicline for tobacco dependence: panacea or plight?, Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy. 2011 Aug;12(11):1799-812

     

    Source: Informa Healthcare - 06 June 2011
    Link: http://bit.ly/qDxYmf

Events

  • Health and Wellbeing – the 21st Century Agenda

    The second international conference organised by the journal Public Health is taking as its theme health and wellbeing. The conference will explore the relationships between health, wellbeing and the factors which influence them in a global environment. 


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    Date: 08 September 2011
    Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ
    Contact: crobins@rsph.org.uk

  • UN Summit on Non-Communicable Diseases

    The Summit will focus on the four most prominent non-communicable diseases, namely, cancers, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes. The aim of the summit is to agree on a global strategy to address NCDs.

    There will be a High-level meeting of the UN General Assembly on the prevention and control of Non-communicable Diseases (19-20 September 2011), while Non-communicable disease indicators are on the agenda for discussion during the Millennium Development Goals Review Session (20-22 September 2011).

    Date: 19 September 2011
    Venue: New York City, USA
    Contact: http://bit.ly/dOgoW4

  • Working together to reduce health inequalities

    This half-day briefing will explore the implications, risks and opportunities involved in the practical application of the Department of Health’s Healthy Lives white paper, published in December 2010, with regards to understanding and reducing health inequalities.
     

    Date: 23 September 2011
    Venue: ORT House Conference Centre, London NW1
    Contact: http://www.pavpub.com/p-399-working-together-to-reduce-health-inequalities.aspx

  • Changes to the UK guidelines for travellers

     

    From the 1 October 2011 the UK will reduce in the Minimum Indicative Levels (MILs) used by Border Agency staff to assist in determining whether importations of tobacco products from other EU Member states are for own use.  

    This is in accordance with the levels set out in EU Directive 2008/118 - 800 cigarettes and 1kg tobacco.  From this date the previous UK MILs for cigarettes and tobacco of 3,200 sticks and 3kg respectively will no longer apply.  This will bring the UK in line with all but one of the other EU Member States. 

    Date: 01 October 2011
    Venue: UK

  • 14th European Health Forum Gastein

    The EHFG has developed into a key annual event, bringing together, politicians, senior decision-makers, representatives of interest groups, and experts coming from government and administration, business and industry, civil society and science and academia.

    Date: 05 October 2011
    Venue: Salzburg, Austria
    Contact: http://www.ehfg.org/registration.html?&L=0

  • Study day at Royal Marsden Hospital: It's never too late to stop

    The day covers Smoking and the impact on cancer treatment and how to support cancer patients and their families to stop smoking.

    Date: 07 October 2011
    Venue: Royal Marsden Hospital
    Contact: www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/studydays or call: (0044) 020 78082924

  • Tobacco and Alcohol: Learning From Each Other Conference

    Cigarette smoking is highly prevalent among people with alcohol use disorders. People who are dependent on alcohol are more likely than those in the general population to be smokers, and people who are dependent on tobacco are more likely than the general population to be dependent on alcohol. Alcohol use problems are associated with higher levels of nicotine dependence and a lower likelihood of smoking cessation. More alcoholics die of tobacco-related illness than die of alcohol-related problems. The link between alcohol and tobacco has important implications for those in the alcohol and smoking cessation treatment and policy fields. The conference is an opportunity to learn from each other and to present new models and ways of working.

    Date: 12 October 2011
    Venue: Parc Thistle Hotel, Cardiff
    Contact: http://www.ashwales.org.uk/conference-registration/

  • Tobacco science at ICAA 54th International Conference on Dependencies

    Plenary sessions with keynote speakers of international renown will address major themes, most of them having a general, non-substance-specific nature covering aspects relevant to matters regarding alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

    On Monday 14th November one plenary session will deal with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. (Presenters: Deborah Arnott, Director of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) UK,  Prof. Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of Tobacco Studies. University College London

    On Wednesday 16th November there will be Major sessions including four presentations with tobacco-specific content: 
    Harm reduction 
    Prof Ann McNeil, Professor in Health Policy and Promotion, Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies. Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham. UK

    Pharmacological and non-pharmacological features of Substance Dependence : comparisons between alcohol/drugs/tobacco
    Karl Olov Fagerstrom PhD, Fagerstrom Consulting, Helsingborg, Sweden

    Scientific basis for tobacco product regulation
    Lars Ramström PhD, Institute for Tobacco Studies, Stockholm, Sweden

    Tobacco control policies
    Deborah Arnott, Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), London, UK

    SESSIONS OF THE ICAA SECTION ON TOBACCO DEPENDENCE 
    All participants are encouraged to submit abstracts of contributed papers for oral presentation in the sessions of the ICAA Section on Tobacco Dependence. We welcome presentations dealing with any aspect of tobacco science and control (research, prevention, treatment, policy etc). 


     

    Date: 13 November 2011
    Venue: British Medical Association's Conference Centre, BMA House, London
    Contact: www.icaa.ch/london/

  • Fiftieth anniversary of RCP report on smoking and health

    To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of its first report on Smoking and Health in 1962, the Royal College of Physicians is organising a one-day conference.

    Date: 06 March 2012
    Venue: Royal College of Physicians
    Contact: http://events.rcplondon.ac.uk/details.aspx?e=2497

  • 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health

    The premier, international conference on tobacco control attracts thousands of academics, practitioners, non-government organisations and public officials. 

    Date: 20 March 2012
    Venue: Singapore
    Contact: http://wctoh2012.org