🆕Thoughtful and impactful media campaign from Smokefree Starts on the benefits of quitting smoking to improve mental health👇

Cathy started smoking when she was 11. Just before her 50th birthday,​‌ she had to tell her four daughters that she had lung cancer. 

As our #Smoking Survivors campaign launches again hear her story on ITV during... 

📺 This Morning
📺 Coronation Street
📺 Emmerdale
📺 Lorraine

Smoking ban: Why are young people still taking up smoking? - BBC News
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🔗Link of the week🔗

Yesterday ASH published its new Ready Reckoner tool. The Reckoner is now fully hosted online rather than in an Excel workbook, so it is much easier to access than in previous years.

Find out how much smoking costs your area: ash.org.uk/resources/view…

Good progress yesterday on the line by line scrutiny of the bill in committee. Determined to get this world leading bill through during this Parliament! Thank you ASH for all your hard work 👇

Hazel Cheeseman, Deputy CE of ASH, said: “There was a period between the Sixties and early Noughties where smoking was becoming more affordable. What we are seeing now is that reduced affordability is one of the most effective levers to change behaviour.”
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My advice for Rishi Sunak is 'you should bank the two years as prime minister that you know you can have,' Prof Sir John Curtice says

He adds if the PM gets through his proposed smoking ban, he'd gain 'a legacy that many a prime minister would die for'

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Dr Ian Walker, Executive Director for Policy at Cancer Research UK, writes about the New Zealand government's U-turn on a generational smoking ban. politics.co.uk/comment/2024/0…

Martin Raw obituary: Pioneering doctor in treatment of cigarette addiction
He created the International Centre for Tobacco Cessation and investigated cigarette smuggling thetimes.co.uk/article/martin…

A single-use vapes working group has been formed between Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales.

Under current plans, each nation will progress its own legislation and have agreed to work towards a joint coming into force date of 1 April 2025.
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