Big Tobacco 'must pay' to cut smoking rates, say MPs

Big Tobacco 'must pay' to cut smoking rates, say MPs

By Liz Wells 02 April 2025

Big Tobacco should be forced to fund initiatives that reduce smoking rates and reduce the gap in healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest, a new report says.

Smartwatch technology helps people quit smoking

By Liz Wells 02 January 2025

Smartwatches could help people give up smoking, new research reveals.

NHS rolls out new 'stop-smoking' drug

By Liz Wells 12 November 2024

An improved anti-smoking drug is to be rolled out on the NHS in England in a bid to save thousands of lives.

Tobacco and Vapes Bill to create 'smokefree generation'

By Lee Peart 05 November 2024

New legislation introduced to Parliament today pledges to create a smokefree generation.

Call for chancellor to invest in smokefree UK

By Lee Peart 17 October 2024

Over 200 leading health professionals have called on the chancellor to invest in creating a smokefree UK.

Call for increase in public health grant in Autumn Budget

By Lee Peart 01 October 2024

Councils have called on the Government to increase investment in the public health grant in the Autumn Budget.

Latest Health Survey figures 'raise some concerns', leader says

By Lee Peart 07 June 2024

NHS Confederation director of policy, Dr Layla McCay has expressed ‘concerns' at the latest Health Survey statistics which show an increase in the proportion of adults drinking at higher risk levels.

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