All Smoking cessation articles – Page 10
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Short Cuts: HEA launches anti-smoking manual for schools
The Health Education Authority has launched a manual to help schools create a plan of action to educate young people about tobacco and reduce smoking on their own premises. It follows research showing that 91 per cent of schools have a smoking policy, but 63 per cent allow adults to ...
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Tobacco white paper focuses on preventing child smoking
New measures to try to prevent children starting to smoke were expected to be outlined today in the government's long-awaited tobacco white paper.
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PRO-SMOKING LOBBY IS ONLY SCORING OWN GOALS
Martin Ball, spokesman for a tobacco industry-funded pressure group (Letters, 15 January), claims that under-age smoking would increase if the legal age for selling cigarettes was raised from 16 to 18. If this is true - which is most unlikely - why does he object, given that the tobacco industry ...
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THOUGHTS ON THE REAL ANTI-SMOKING AGENDA
So public health minister Tessa Jowell wants to criminalise those smokers aged 16 and 17, who can presently be legally sold tobacco products (News Focus, page 10, 4 December).