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[UK] Child labour rampant in tobacco industry
Child labour in tobacco is rampant and on the increase... Evidence from three continents shows how children aged 14 and under are kept out of school and employed in hard and sometimes harmful physical labour to produce the tobacco leaf that fills cigare
Jun 25, 2018
The Guardian (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:28
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[UK] NHS staff smokers cost health service £200m a year with cigarette breaks and sick days, report finds
There are more than 73,000 smokers among the 1.2 million NHS employees in England and the lost working hours from their combined smoking breaks add up to £99m a year, the Royal College of Physicians’ tobacco advisory group has said. Though smoking break
Jun 26, 2018
The Independent (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:25
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[UK] Help smokers quit, doctors tell hospitals
The NHS’s failure to help smokers quit is “as negligent as not treating cancer”, top doctors say. Every smoker who goes into hospital should be treated for tobacco dependency alongside any other ailments, according to a report by the Royal College of Ph
Jun 26, 2018
Times Of London (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:22
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[UK] Hiding in plain sight: Treating tobacco dependency in the NHS
The principle of justice requires that we offer smokers help to quit smoking; failure to so implies that smokers’ health is less important than that of other patients. Failing to provide help to quit smoking while delivering other similarly or less cost
Jun 26, 2018
Royal College of Physicians (uk)
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Jun 26, 2018 21:21
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[UK] Adam Smith Institute
The free-market think tank promotes strong visions against regulation of smoking; in June 2013, it was found to accept money from the tobacco industry.
Jul 27, 2016
TobaccoTactics.org (University of Bath Department for Health) (uk)
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Jun 25, 2018 15:21
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[Europe, UK] JARVIS: Why don’t more young women vape? EU regulations are partly to blame
British vaping laws aren’t that Victorian, but there’s room for improvement. While we allow vape shops and vaping in public places, e-cigarette manufacturers face stiff regulation and are prevented from talking about the relative risks of vaping compared
Jun 25, 2018
The Spectator (uk)
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Jun 25, 2018 15:21
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[UK] TALK OF THE TOWN: David Cameron admits he is 'trying to give up smoking all the time'
desperate efforts to quit the evil weed have come to nothing, I can reveal – because friends and even his wife are leading him astray. The former PM, who was famously spotted fag-in-hand at last summer’s Wilderness festival, below, tells me: ‘I’m trying t
Jun 24, 2018
The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
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Jun 25, 2018 14:44
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[UK] The ORIGINAL palace of bling: The Shangri-La in Surrey that was built by a crook and played host to legendary debauchery before it all burned to the ground (except its underwater pleasure dome)
Victorian mining speculator Whitaker Wright... An air vent emerged through Neptune’s mouth and wisps of smoke were sometimes seen drifting out of it when Wright and his friends were enjoying cigars.
Jun 24, 2018
The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday (uk)
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Jun 25, 2018 14:44
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[Europe, UK] PRYOR: Our panicky and reactionary regulation of e-cigarettes is getting in the way of saving lives
our advertising restrictions, some of which are mandated by the European Union’s Tobacco Products Directive. As a result of these restrictions, we find ourselves in a ludicrous situation where a majority of smokers think that e-cigarettes are no safer th
Jun 22, 2018
Electronic Telegraph (uk)
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Jun 23, 2018 17:12
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[UK] Associations between tobacco control mass media campaign expenditure and smoking prevalence and quitting in England: a time series analysis [FREE FULL TEXT]
Conclusion Between 2008 and 2016, higher monthly expenditure on tobacco control mass media campaigns in England was associated with higher quit success rates.
Jun 22, 2018
Tobacco Control
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Jun 22, 2018 18:19