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Sources: Office for National Statistics (UK). Smoking habits in the UK and its constituent countries, 2016. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, National Drug Strategy Household Survey, 2016. Updates: New Zealand moves / Media interviews Update: two new submissions (available at Committee submissions page #336) Clive Bates, Colin Mendelsohn. Do vapour products reduce or […] This year’s Stoptober campaign encourages smokers to try vaping – bravo! Update 24 September: Cancer Research UK says its hasn’t “been prevented from doing anything by the ASA that we are aware of, so don’t know why this story appeared” and PHE ads were still running on TV last night. So please treat the […] Positive… The Department of Health (UK/England) today released its tobacco control plan for England: Towards a smoke-free generation: tobacco control plan for England (PDF) The embrace of vaping and other low-risk alternatives to smoking runs through the text. This is probably the first significant government policy paper anywhere that recognises and pursues the opportunities […] A remarkably self-regarding letter is published in The Times (London) today. The writers are reacting with hostility to the outstanding Royal College of Physicians report, Nicotine without smoke: tobacco harm reduction, and the very positive editorial in The Times (Vaping Vindicated) that followed its launch. In my view, their letter is truly dreadful, but it […] “a new worldwide high point in the blending of evidence with empathy” I would like to draw your attention to a really excellent new briefing on e-cigarettes from the UK National Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training … this is version 2, February 2016. Electronic cigarettes: A briefing for stop smoking services > PDF […] |
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