Stories on tobacco
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Features
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So much done – and so much still to do
With tobacco advertising finally banned in the UK, health activists are celebrating by turning their attention to the next steps in the long campaign against smoking, explains Amanda Sandford
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A globe gasping for breath
Anti-smoking measures in the West mean tobacco companies are looking elsewhere for profits, reports Darryl Cowley
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The ad gag drags on
What are the chances of a private member’s bill to ban tobacco advertising becoming law? John Connolly reports
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Why a few tips won’t go far
Recent anti-smoking campaigns ignore the psychological nature of smoking, say Catherine Sykes and David Marks
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Has the tobacco industry finally met its match?
In the wake of a recent courtroom success, anti-smoking campaigners are pinning fresh hopes on litigation in the battle against the tobacco industry. Monisha Bhaumik reports
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New moves in the battle of the bottle
New controls on baby milk marketing may help reverse falling rates of breast feeding. Patti Rundall reports
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What’s the point in stopping?
What is it about being poor — and a young woman — that increases the likelihood of smoking, asks Patti White
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Tell them to pack it in…
New evidence confirms that tobacco companies are continuing to beat the TV advertising ban. But there’s no need to despair, says Cecilia Farren — there’s plenty we can all do to fight back
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A green smoke screen
Profits still come before health, even if the image is eco-friendly, warns Ged Moran
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Tobacco companies: a cancer in our midst
Britain must be forced to end its ‘gentleman’s agreement’ with the tobacco producers if a real attempt is to be made to reduce smoking, says Frank Chalmers
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Columns
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Some addictions are worth the pain
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Is this a bad advert for New Labour?
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There’s no smoking without ire
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Passive smoking is for passive people
Eric the Heretic is fuming at news that a council worker has won £15,000 from her employer in a passive smoking claim
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Ten things you never knew about… tobacco
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A brief encounter with distrust
Rosa Hudson, healthmatters’ doctor at large, reports from the front line
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News
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Target to quit could stub out services
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Tobacco toll will rise as girls light up
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Smoke-free world cup – except in Malaysia
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‘Dismay’ at lack of tobacco legislation
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‘Make tobacco a manifesto commitment’
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Treat tobacco industry like ‘organised crime’
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Call to monitor tobacco trade
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Introduce tobacco advertising ban early, government told
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Smoke-free public places are expected soon
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Anti-smoker campaigners find a cause for celebration
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Pressure mounts for tobacco advertising ban
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Public support for a ban on tobacco advertising
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Teenage smoking is double government target levels
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Secret genetic engineering produces high nicotine tobacco
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Government remains addicted to tobacco despite medical advice to quit
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Snag on fags gag: UK drags
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Snag on fags gag: UK drags
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Auntie starts them young…
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US makes tobacco top target
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No-smoking campaign row flares
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Reviews
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Calling time on booze and fags
ADDICTION: FROM BIOLOGY TO DRUG POLICY
Avram Goldstein
Oxford University Press, 2001, £10.95 -
Smoking memos
DENIAL & DELAY: the political history of smoking and health, 1951-1964
David Pollock
Action on Smoking and Health, 1999 -
Those nicotine-age years
SMOKING IN ADOLESCENCE: IMAGES AND IDENTITIES
Barbara Lloyd and Kevin Lucas
Routledge, 1998, £14.99 -
For some, life is a drag
SMOKE RINGS
Video and booklet resource
Sheffield Health Promotion Unit, 1995 -
Do women ‘do death better’?
Lifting the taboo: women, death and dying
Sally Cline
Little, Brown & Co, 1995, £18.99 -
A cure for apoplexy
Tobacco in history: the cultures of dependence
Jordan Goodman
Routledge, 1993 -
Ones who got away
GETTING SOBER AND LOVING IT!
Joan and Derek Taylor
Vermillion, 1992, £6.99
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