I smoke… really, I started today!!
Today the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) released guidance that calls on firms to help smokers quit, particularly in the run up to the public ban on smoking that comes...
View ArticleA prescription for disaster
Professor Julian Le Grand has a radical strategy for tackling the supposed problems of ill health in the UK: smoking permits (which might require a doctor’s note), an ‘exercise hour’ for company...
View ArticleThe smoking police
Ealing PCT’s new campaign to ‘help’ smokers quit goes to the heart of a debate too-often ignored: the proper limits of state intervention in the name of public health. The PCT has gone one step further...
View ArticleAn addendum: the new ‘underclass’
This blog last Thursday wrote about whether or not the government was pushing the public health agenda too far without proper debate on the implications for civil liberty. Apparently, this doesn’t seem...
View ArticleSending the Right Smoke Signals
By Emily Clarke In 2001 Portugal abolished all criminal penalties for personal possession of drugs, from cannabis to heroin, in an attempt to reduce the number of drug related deaths and the spread of...
View ArticleA plain and simple step: England’s proposed cigarette packaging laws
Today public health minister Jane Ellison announced that a new law imposing plain unbranded cigarette packaging in England (first proposed in 2010) will be voted on before the next general election, if...
View ArticleVaping: does it have the potential to renormalise smoking?
It is exciting and unusual to hear the words ‘game changer’ applied by public health professionals to anything to do with smoking. However such words were used by Professor Ann McNeill of King’s...
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