Public policy
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Emergency asthma admissions drop by nearly 2000 a year following smokefree law
Numbers of adults admitted to hospital for emergency treatment for asthma have dropped by over four per cent since smokefree legislation was introduced in England, Bath researchers have found.
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New research suggests that government cap cigarette prices and raise an extra £500m per year in doing so
Dr Robert Branston, from the Centre for Governance and Regulation at the University of Bath’s School of Management; and Professor Anna Gilmore, from the University’s Department for Health and the UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies, say that capping the pre-tax cigarette manufacturers’ prices would safeguard society from the market failure behind manufacturers’ pricing power and associated high profits.
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Impact of smoking ban on the most exposed children
High levels of secondhand smoke exposure in children are known to have adverse consequences for arterial health. However, there is no information about the proportion of children in England that are exposed to these levels, whether it has changed over...
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500,000 against plain packaging? The figures just don’t add up.
Plain packaging for cigarettes would require cigarettes to be sold in packets of a standard colour and shape with brand names written in a standardised font and pictorial health warnings covering a substantial proportion of the packet. The public consultation on plain packaging in the UK came to a close on the 10th August 2012. A few days later the Tobacco Manufacturer’s Association (TMA) publicised that ‘half a million oppose plain packaging .’ There are three significant issues with this figure:
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Smokeless tobacco illegally sold via the internet
We discovered that snus, a smokeless tobacco banned in all EU countries except Sweden, is easily obtainable online - contravening three pieces of EU legislation. Is Swedish legislation doing enough to prohibit exports to other EU countries?
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Smoking ban linked to drop in adults’ second-hand smoke exposure
Levels of second-hand smoke exposure among non-smoking adults fell by almost 30 per cent after smoke free legislation was introduced in England in 2007. The most comprehensive study to date of second-hand smoke exposure among non-smoking adults in England, which...
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Smoking ban linked to drop in admissions for heart attacks
We have observed a 2.4 per cent drop in the number of emergency admissions to hospital for a heart attack following the implementation of smokefree legislation in England. The legislation was introduced on 1 July 2007 and this study was...
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Children’s exposure to second-hand smoke on decline
Children’s second-hand smoke exposure and health inequalities declined in the build-up to the Smoke-free Legislation in England