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Exposing the blindingly obvious 22 Aug 2013 | 01:55 am
A very short comment, this, about why the Edinburgh Evening News feels the need to 'expose' the modern tendency of smokers to occupy hospital doorways and environs as smoking areas. Words that are me...
On illegal tobacco undermining legitimate sales 13 Aug 2013 | 04:48 pm
Sheila Duffy once more attempts to make a case that tobacco retailer groups are only arguing against tobacco control because they are supported by tobacco companies. And fails. After a long and loud ...
Hospital smoking bans, and not learning from the past 4 Aug 2013 | 03:44 am
While Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust realises that a smoking ban on NHS premises is unenforceable, Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge decides that a ban thought to be unenforceable a few years...
Proposed Smoking (Children in Vehicles) (Scotland) Bill: Consultation document published. 29 Jul 2013 | 05:02 am
You can find the consultation document here. Questions are near the back and the deadline is 5 pm on 30 August 2013. As one might expect the document makes case for a law criminalising the act of smo...
Plain packaging kicked into the not very long grass? 27 Jul 2013 | 12:48 am
I chanced on a tweet that sported this link, and the relevant paragraph is here, embedded in Amendments to the Children and Families Bill: (1) The Secretary of State may, if satisfied that doing so...
On maternal smoking during pregnancy, from the Daily Mail and Pfizer 26 Jul 2013 | 12:47 pm
Rarely does one get to the nub of an issue so quickly. This research was reported in the Daily Mail under the heading 'Does smoking make you a bad parent?' two days ago, focussing on parenting behavio...
Plain packaging works. It makes tobacco taste unpleasant. BMJ Tobacco Control blog 23 Jul 2013 | 10:20 pm
Will that heading bring some supporters of plain packaging here? I wonder. The blog post in question still says 'No one has commented yet'. This isn't true because I commented already, but they don't...
Dangers to life and the public health lobby: adverse drug reactions kill more than smoking 22 Jul 2013 | 04:31 pm
Reader What the ... delivered a series of comments on the last blog piece. With the author's consent I have reproduced them below. Tobacco makes a lot of people a lot of money There’s quite a bit wr...
Lancet blames tobacco for everything, others more realistic 20 Jul 2013 | 06:00 am
Let's get The Lancet out of the way first. Even its headline is ridiculous: 'Tobacco control: where economics trumps health'. Its opening line is: 'Tobacco makes a lot of people a lot of money.' Whi...
House of Commons Scrutiny Committee questions Under Secretary of Public Health Soubry 19 Jul 2013 | 01:56 pm
Time for opposition parties to challenge government on the Tobacco Products Directive. So eager was Anna Soubry to get the Tobacco Products Directive in Europe through that she went to Luxembourg and ...
