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| Date |
Summary |
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2007-08-29 |
Picture health warnings: UK a front-runner, other EU countries urged to catch up. |
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2007-08-04 |
Smoking ban: Initial survey reveals high level of compliance and public support. |
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2007-07-27 |
BAT’s anti-competitive practices exposed. Companies attending business conference urged to withdraw in protest at BAT’s presence. |
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2007-07-01 |
England goes Smokefree Today: A victory for Public Health |
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2007-06-28 |
Tobacco Giants Fiddle While Homes Burn |
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2007-05-31 |
New survey shows 1 in 4 will visit pubs more often after smokefree legislation. |
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2007-05-17 |
Smokefree Lords is a great relief. |
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2007-05-10 |
Blair: Tobacco campaigners bid fond farewell. |
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2007-05-09 |
BAT admits breach of its marketing code. |
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2007-05-08 |
Smoking in Hollywood movies strongly linked to increase in global youth smoking. |
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2007-04-26 |
Tobacco giant's 'School of Cool' recruits young smokers |
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2007-04-26 |
750,000 die in UK corporate social responsibility scandal |
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2007-03-29 |
Smokers take more sick leave: more evidence of the benefits of going smokefree early. |
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2007-03-27 |
Shisha 200 times worse than a cigarette say Middle East experts. |
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2007-03-21 |
ASH Budget reaction: Tax reduction on stop smoking products will increase quitting prospects. |
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2007-03-14 |
No Smoking Day trigger to quit before the ban. PCTs urged to support Stop Smoking Services. |
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2007-03-04 |
Public demand Chancellor puts up tobacco tax in Budget |
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2007-02-14 |
Anniversary of smokefree vote starts countdown for 3.7 million bosses. |
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2007-02-14 |
EU Parliament's backtracking on smoking ban undermines smokefree directive proposals. |
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2007-02-06 |
Bigger, bolder health warnings prompt smokers to quit. |
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2007-01-01 |
Raising the legal age for buying tobacco is welcome but retailers must also be licensed to sell tobacco. |
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2006-12-29 |
Hard hitting ads show the reality of nicotine addiction. |
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2006-12-15 |
Allen Carr's letter to Tony Blair and ASH’s response. |
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2006-12-05 |
ASH news release 05/12/2006 - Varenicline: guidance for health
professionals. |
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2006-12-01 |
England to go smokefree on 1 July 2007: truly a time for celebration. |
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2006-11-23 |
ECJ ruling on Internet sales - public health disaster averted. |
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2006-11-16 |
DTI criticised for 'lukewarm' response on RIP cigarettes - has it been nobbled by tobacco industry |
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2006-11-13 |
RIP Coalition calls for new cigarette standard to cut fires. |
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2006-10-19 |
New Head of Policy for ASH. |
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2006-10-09 |
Major Online Mapping Project Shows 'Iron Chain' Between Smoking and Deprivation |
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2006-10-02 |
ASH tells Government raising legal age for buying tobacco is not enough. |
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2006-08-18 |
All forms of tobacco use increase risk of heart attack, worldwide study finds. |
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2006-08-16 |
Bloomberg donates $125 million to worldwide tobacco control: ASH calls on UK Government to spell out its financial commitment to Tobacco Treaty implementation. |
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2006-07-24 |
Go Smokefree Early: New Advice Site Launched |
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2006-07-17 |
ASH Welcomes Smokefree Regulations |
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2006-07-03 |
ASH Welcomes Government Moves on Under Age Tobacco Sales: But Getting Adults to Quit Still the Most Important Step |
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2006-06-13 |
Advocate General dismisses German challenge to tobacco ad ban: now there is no excuse for law not to be fully implemented across Europe. |
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2006-06-07 |
UK Government warned: Do not miss chance to cut cigarette fires. |
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2006-06-07 |
Lords economic report is grossly misleading on secondhand smoke risk. |
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2006-05-27 |
Picture warnings: A missed opportunity? |
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2006-04-27 |
British American Tobacco AGM 2006 Celebrating Exporting Misery to the Poor |
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2006-04-24 |
Half the workforce still exposed to smoke. New figures show workplace health divide. |
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2006-03-23 |
Can’t get it up? Forget Viagra and quit smoking instead! |
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2006-03-22 |
Budget 2006 and smoking: Bad news for public health? |
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2006-03-20 |
Budget 2006 and Smoking:
What it Will Say and What it Should Say
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2006-03-07 |
Smoking ban will boost smokers' resolve to quit. Don't wait for the ban - do it now! |
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2006-02-15 |
SMOKEFREE WINS THE DAY: GREATEST PUBLIC HEALTH GAIN FOR THIRTY YEARS |
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2006-02-10 |
Health Bill Commons Report Stage
Tuesday 14th February 2006
Smoking in Workplaces and Enclosed Public Places
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2006-02-08 |
BAT deception kept smokers hooked on harmful cigarettes. |
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2006-01-31 |
New poll shows public back Health Select Committee amendment on smokefree law. |
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2006-01-11 |
ASH welcomes smoking free vote |
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2006-01-10 |
Health Select Committee tables all party comprehensive smoking ban amendment |
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2005-12-30 |
Major new poll shows public support across UK for comprehensive smokefree law |
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2005-12-28 |
New Years Resolutions |
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2005-12-19 |
Health Select Committee Strikes Decisive Blow for Smokefree Legislation |
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2005-12-08 |
Raising Smoking Age to 18 “Modestly Useful” - but no Substitute for Comprehensive Workplace Smoking Law |
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2005-11-25 |
MPs, Trade Bodies, Health Groups, Local Government Unite to Demand Comprehensive Smokefree Law |
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2005-11-24 |
Government Publishes Smokefree Consultation
Four out of Five Back Comprehensive Ban
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2005-10-27 |
Pubs Bodge in Smokefree Law 'Disastrous' for Health Equality and Government Alcohol Strategy |
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2005-10-26 |
Smokefree Law Coming: But Pub Bodge Cannot Survive |
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2005-10-17 |
Great News for Northern Ireland as Smoking Stubbed Out in All Workplaces: Now for England |
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2005-10-14 |
Nicotine Replacement Should be Used to Help Smokers Cut Down as Well as Quit: New Guidance |
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2005-10-10 |
ASH Media Briefing: Health Improvement and Protection Bill Smoking in Workplaces and Enclosed Public Places |
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2005-10-05 |
WHO report shows that tobacco use is still a major preventable cause of most chronic diseases. |
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2005-09-26 |
Smokefree legislation ‘It’s about health and it’s about time’ –
Labour Party Conference Fringe Meeting
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2005-09-05 |
Health inequalities set to worsen as many pubs would drop food for exemption from smokefree law. |
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2005-08-31 |
Smoking can cost an arm and a leg as well as raising the risk of dying from a heart attack or stroke. |
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2005-08-31 |
Ken Clarke’s BAT Role Makes Him Unfit for Leadership |
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2005-08-24 |
Hospitality Trade Warned of Legal Risk from Secondhand Smoke |
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2005-08-22 |
Overwhelming public support for comprehensive smokefree law: new poll reveals. |
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2005-08-15 |
MPs Back Comprehensive Smokefree Law, New Survey Reveals |
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2005-08-01 |
Health and Safety Commission backs comprehensive smokefree law. |
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2005-07-29 |
EU-wide tobacco advertising ban jeopardised by threat of non-compliance by Formula One |
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2005-07-19 |
Government should back CMO's call to tackle tobacco smuggling and make ALL workplaces smokefree |
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2005-07-05 |
Too many councils failing smoking challenge. |
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2005-07-05 |
New cancer report shows why smokefree law MUST be comprehensive. |
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2005-06-20 |
Government consultation document 'opens door' to ending smoking in all
workplaces |
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2005-06-17 |
ADVANCE MEDIA BRIEFING: Government Consultation on Smoking in Workplaces |
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2005-05-31 |
ASH news release 31/05/2005 - McTear vs Imperial Tobacco |
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2005-05-17 |
Victory over Smoking Bill in Queen's Speech |
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2005-05-13 |
Smokefree law expected in Queen's speech |
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2005-05-12 |
BMA survey shows need for government to drop pub exemption from smokefree law |
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2005-05-10 |
Wales: Assembly Calls for Powers to End Workplace Smoking |
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2005-04-29 |
Italy: New Far Right Health Minister Moves Against Smoking Restrictions |
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2005-04-28 |
BAT in its own words: Tobacco company papers show truth behind greewash |
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2005-04-21 |
Election 2005: Parties disagree over smokefree law |
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2005-03-30 |
Guernsey to go smoke-free: when will the rest of the UK follow suit? |
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2005-03-29 |
One Year After Ireland’s Smokefree Law: A Story of Success.
Now British Public Demands Action
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2005-03-18 |
Health Organisations back important bid for Smokefree Wales |
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2005-03-16 |
Budget response: Tax rise welcomed but more action needed to tackle smuggling. |
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2005-03-11 |
Budget 2005: Tobacco tax and smuggling |
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2005-03-09 |
Public Health White Paper Delivery Plan – a step in the right direction |
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2005-03-08 |
Tobacco group talks nonsense on secondhand smoke |
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2005-03-02 |
Major new study shows secondhand smoke leading workplace killer |
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2005-02-24 |
Global Tobacco Treaty to take effect on 27th February. |
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2005-02-21 |
Letter Campaign to Support Bid for Smokefree Wales |
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2005-01-24 |
Wetherspoon lead shows Government is lagging behind the demand for smokefree pubs. |
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2005-01-10 |
Press conference to launch Wales smoking bill |
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2004-12-17 |
Wales: Smoking Bill to be introduced in Commons |
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2004-12-16 |
UK ratifies global tobacco treaty: now is the time for a long term strategy to cut tobacco use |
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2004-12-09 |
Smokefree law unlikely to hurt businesses in New Zealand. |
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2004-12-01 |
ASH applauds 40th ratification of global treaty and calls for immediate ratification by the UK Government. |
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2004-11-16 |
White Paper Smoking Plans: Big step forwards for public health. But Pubs “Bodge” Just Won’t Work
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2004-11-15 |
'Voluntary” pubs smoking scheme useless public health campaigners warn |
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2004-11-12 |
Smoking deaths highlight health inequalities. |
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2004-11-12 |
Media briefing: Smoking and the public health white paper, a licence to kill?
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2004-11-11 |
Health lobby calls on UK Government to follow Scottish smokefree lead |
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2004-11-10 |
Scottish Executive announcement on smokefree public places |
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2004-11-10 |
Joyous day for Scotland: ASH says it is now time for the rest of the UK to follow suit. |
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2004-11-10 |
Smoke and Mirrors: How Philip Morris concealed the truth about secondhand smoke |
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2004-11-05 |
Humiliating defeat for tobacco industry: High Court rules that ad restrictions at point of sale are lawful. |
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2004-11-03 |
Media Briefing: Secondhand smoke, Public Health White Paper |
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2004-10-25 |
No 'British Bodge' on secondhand smoke: Reid warned. |
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2004-10-20 |
All Party Group of politicians urges Health Secretary to adopt Irish smokefree model legislation. |
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2004-10-18 |
Leaked Government report shows extent of health damage from secondhand smoke |
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2004-10-08 |
Irish Visit Convinces All Party Group on Need for Smoke-free Law |
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2004-10-04 |
MPs on quest to discover secrets of success of Ireland’s smokefree law |
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2004-09-09 |
Pub Trade Splits on Smoking Ban |
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2004-09-07 |
EU ruling on smokeless tobacco shows need for independent tobacco regulation |
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2004-09-03 |
Smoke Freedom Toolkit Published: Also Key Figures on Workplace Exposure |
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2004-08-04 |
Imperial Tobacco found guilty of breaching tobacco advertising law. |
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2004-07-28 |
Chief Medical Officer gives powerful new evidence on ending workplace smoking |
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2004-07-09 |
Marlboro Man does billion dollar deal on smuggling with Europe - ASH
demands to know why UK is not included? |
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2004-07-09 |
Hooking them young in Asia: the real reason for BAT's involvement in F1 |
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2004-06-30 |
New study shows secondhand smoke heart risk twice previous estimates |
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2004-06-22 |
No health gain for smokers over 50 years |
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2004-06-11 |
Overwhelming backing for workplace smoking law |
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2004-06-11 |
Doctors, Unions, ASH tell Reid: It is time to act on secondhand smoke |
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2004-06-09 |
Smoking: A pleasure or a killer? Smoking and social class |
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2004-06-04 |
Health campaigners welcome Blair smoking comments |
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2004-06-04 |
Will Europe lift ban on Oral Snuff? |
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2004-05-31 |
World No Tobacco Day - ASH urges FCTC ratification |
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2004-05-28 |
Health campaigners thwart BAT's attempts to conceal incriminating documents from public view. |
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2004-05-28 |
Welcome to Norway: the only thing we smoke here is salmon |
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2004-05-17 |
Secondhand smoke major workplace killer: new evidence |
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2004-04-23 |
Lords debate smokefree workplace bill |
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2004-04-21 |
BAT's Big Wheeze - major new report into BAT |
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2004-04-19 |
Secondhand smoke legal action moves another step closer |
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2004-04-07 |
Pub trade unity against no-smoking law cracks. |
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2004-03-26 |
Out to BAT |
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2004-03-19 |
Tackling smoking key to progress on cutting cancer deaths. |
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2004-03-18 |
Fall in smoking is a step in the right direction but more needs to be done to bring smoking rates down further. |
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2004-03-17 |
Chancellor's failure to raise tobacco tax above inflation rate is a missed opportunity to cut the death toll from smoking. |
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2004-03-11 |
Budget 2004: What it will say and what it should say |
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2004-03-09 |
New anti-smoking Bill for Lords |
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2004-03-05 |
Fire-safe cigarettes could have prevented Coronation Street tragedy |
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2004-03-03 |
Cutting smoking top prioriy for public health |
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2004-02-25 |
Wanless Report gives powerful backing to case for smokefree law |
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2004-02-24 |
New research shows need for action on secondhand smoke |
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2004-02-12 |
50th anniversary of government acknowledgment of smoking's link with lung cancer. Now it's time for action on secondhand smoke. |
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2004-02-03 |
Tackling tobacco: key to improving public health |
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2004-01-12 |
ASH and Thompsons’ Tell Employers:
Don't Say You Weren't Warned Over Secondhand Smoke |
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2003-12-15 |
Victory for tobacco control campaigners sued for unearthing tobacco industry mole. |
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2003-12-05 |
Lancet Article on Smoking Ban: Comment |
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2003-11-25 |
Secondhand Smoke: Time for a Law |
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2003-11-22 |
Warning: Craig David could be bad for your health |
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2003-11-21 |
Imperial Tobacco twists and burns |
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2003-11-11 |
Imperial Tobacco’s behaviour despicable say ASH |
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2003-11-06 |
BAT bows out of Burma |
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2003-10-27 |
Tobacco lobby to public: keep on choking |
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2003-10-20 |
Blow to bootleggers welcomed - but what about the Big Boys? |
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2003-10-06 |
Restaurant Trade to Kids: 'Eat and Choke' |
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2003-10-03 |
Craig David - Penang's Pied Piper? |
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2003-09-23 |
Smoke-free successes in North America provide a lesson for the UK |
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2003-09-22 |
Tobacco industry deceit on low tar cigarettes revealed |
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2003-09-19 |
Artist protest forces BAT to withdraw sponsorship |
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2003-09-10 |
Formula One 'blackmailers' threaten global tobacco treaty |
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2003-07-03 |
Chief Medical Officer recommends banning smoking in public places: ASH calls on government to act now. |
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2003-06-16 |
ASH congratulates government for signing historic tobacco treaty |
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2003-05-29 |
ASH slams Pubs Smoking Charter |
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2003-05-23 |
ASH congratulates Government for signing up to taking action on Secondhand Smoke |
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2003-05-21 |
Global Treaty signed today on weapons of mass destruction |
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2003-05-16 |
Tobacco Industry-funded study casts doubt on passive smoking deaths – no surprises there, says ASH. |
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2003-05-10 |
Tobacco industry thwarting progress on smoke-free public places |
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2003-05-02 |
ASH urges government to eliminate tobacco smoke from workplaces |
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2003-04-30 |
New director takes charge at ASH |
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2003-04-08 |
Killer on the loose - new research reveals that passive smoking at work kills three people every day. |
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2003-04-04 |
Budget 2003: Chancellor should raise tobacco tax and use revenue to help smokers quit |
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2003-04-03 |
Budget 2003: Chancellor should raise tobacco tax and use revenue to help smokers quit. |
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2003-02-25 |
Smoking bans are good for business. Study shows hospitality industry fears of falls in trade are unfounded. |
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2003-02-13 |
Last day of tobacco ads – “mourn their passing, but remember the dead'...
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2003-01-30 |
Ireland bans smoking in all public places |
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2003-01-15 |
ASH says new WHO tobacco treaty text is a ‘feeble response’ to the global tobacco epidemic |
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2003-01-10 |
MPs savage Imperial Tobacco over smuggling |
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2002-12-30 |
New big, bleak health warnings will encourage smokers to quit. |
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2002-12-10 |
European Court tobacco ruling gives green light to bigger, bleaker warnings and the ban on 'light' branding |
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2002-12-02 |
EU advertising directive has huge loophole - ASH lukewarm |
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2002-11-21 |
Bar managers like smoke-free areas - nothing to fear from legislation, says ASH |
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2002-11-20 |
ASH praises Government strategy on health but the battle to curb smoking continues. |
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2002-11-17 |
Licensed to kill: James Bond goes back to smoking |
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2002-11-06 |
ASH to press for Bill outlawing passive smoking at work |
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2002-10-29 |
Government announces new strategy to tackle x-channel smuggling |
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2002-10-25 |
BAT's Social report: an exercise in artful PR. ASH's critique reveals flaws in BAT's approach to corporate social responsibility. |
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2002-10-24 |
Big Health squares up to Big Tobacco, and tells Marlboro Man to butt out of smoking prevention campaigns
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2002-10-22 |
Tobacco advertising ban is a huge victory for public health. |
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2002-10-11 |
Canadian waitress wins compensation after passive smoke gives her terminal lung cancer: ASH says don't abandon UK workers to same fate. |
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2002-10-05 |
Britain's workers demand the right to smoke-free workplaces: Government inertia hits two year mark. |
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2002-09-10 |
Cigarette regulation – European Advocate General delivers opinion in favour of health and slap in the face to tobacco companies |
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2002-08-29 |
Just a puff can lead to nicotine addiction. Children can get hooked at very low levels of exposure. |
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2002-08-22 |
Tobacco sales to children: 1 in 8 retailers still breaking the law. |
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2002-08-15 |
Just 3 cigarettes a day is enough to trigger heart disease: women are particularly at risk. |
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2002-08-06 |
How Big Tobacco uses and abuses the restaurant trade - new web site: TobaccoScam |
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2002-07-26 |
Smoking in the workplace: Government procrastinates while workers die. |
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2002-07-03 |
BAT social responsibility report - like the Mafia at church, says ASH. |
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2002-06-19 |
Fears over passive smoking danger in the spotlight again |
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2002-05-31 |
World No Tobacco Day: BAT weasels its way into World Cup. 180 organisation say 'butt out' |
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2002-05-29 |
Hospitality trade in pocket of tobacco industry. |
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2002-05-23 |
BAT uses World Cup, English Premier League and top British players to promote smoking in third world |
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2002-05-02 |
Imperial profits from smuggling - ASH calls for an inquiry |
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2002-04-19 |
Smokers less likely to have boys - sperm damage blamed |
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2002-04-17 |
Tobacco: Wanless delivers, Chancellor doesn't |
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2002-04-11 |
NICE guidance gives boost to smoking cessation drugs |
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2002-04-11 |
BAT faces litigation Armageddon after document shredding leads to collapse of Australian cancer case |
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2002-04-10 |
Tobacco tax: 20 health groups call on Brown to put 2p in the pound into helping low-income smokers to quit |
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2002-04-10 |
1,000 Londoners die from passive smoking - GLA calls for workplace code (ACoP) |
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2002-03-15 |
Tobacco ad-ban a near-certainty this year as government backs Lords bill |
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2002-03-13 |
No Smoking Day release - sheer misery of smoking, in smokers’ own words + new web site... |
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2002-03-13 |
No Smoking Day ASH comment - smokers sick of it and wanting to quit. Hints and tips for those that want out... |
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2002-03-08 |
Smokers: disillusioned with smoking and over-optimistic about quitting. New survey published in BMJ. |
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2002-03-07 |
40 Fatal Years - 5 million dead. The 40th anniversary of the RCP 1962 report Smoking and Health. |
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2002-03-01 |
Tobacco boss says don't smoke - ASH comments |
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2002-02-19 |
US judge throws out European Union tobacco smuggling racketeering case on a technicality |
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2002-02-13 |
MPs condemn government indifference to childminder smoking |
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2002-02-09 |
Death of Princess Margaret - the reality of smoking |
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2002-02-05 |
'Defensive and reactionary' Imperial Tobacco face hard questions at AGM |
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2002-01-24 |
Roger Scruton high priest of the libertarian right defrocked and exposed as ‘grimy hack’ for tobacco industry |
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2002-01-18 |
ASH backs Dobson Tobacco Disclosure Bill |
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2002-01-09 |
Shock picture cigarette health warnings have ‘amazing impact’ in Canada |
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2001-12-31 |
New Years resolutions… a strategy for smokers: “Don’t quit smoking on New Years day” says ASH
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2001-12-18 |
Ministers swat away European Commission meddling on anti tobacco smuggling strategy |
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2001-12-18 |
HM Customs press release rejecting Commission comlaints about tobacco smuggling strategy |
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2001-12-17 |
Dubai ambassador to London organised smuggling of BAT cigarettes - documents show |
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2001-12-13 |
Public health experts challenge ‘myopic’ medicine regulator over nicotine replacement products and smoking |
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2001-12-13 |
New findings: Children are up to 6 times more likely to smoke if they see a lot of smoking on screen. ASH calls for 'smoking' films to get a 15 certificate. |
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2001-12-10 |
Cigarettes on the internet: a new frontier for Big Tobacco |
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2001-12-05 |
BAT profits warning - reducing smuggling reduces profits |
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2001-12-04 |
'If smoking was really dangerous, the Government wouldn't let cigarettes be advertised' say half of UK's smokers |
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2001-11-27 |
Death-knell for ‘light’ cigarettes sounds as tobacco treaty negotiations accelerate in Geneva |
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2001-11-24 |
Row at WHO tobacco convention as ‘petulant’ European Union denies it is dragged down by Germany |
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2001-11-15 |
NHS smoking services in danger – careless government may destroy successful public health initiative |
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2001-11-12 |
GeneWatch release: Patent on life warning as links between Biotech companies and Japan Tobacco exposed |
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2001-11-12 |
Japan tobacco tries to profit from smoking and cancer – controls rights to future lung cancer treatments based on genetic patents |
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2001-11-07 |
ASH and the British Dental Association join forces to mark Mouth Cancer Awareness Week. |
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2001-11-02 |
On 2 November, the House of Lords debated a Private Member's Bill to ban tobacco advertising. ASH calls for Government to give this Bill the support it nees to become law. |
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2001-11-01 |
Analyst reveals truth about tobacco companies' international marketing code - it's a sham. |
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2001-10-24 |
European Commission sides with tobacco smugglers against UK Customs |
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2001-09-26 |
Zyban is an essential aid to stoping smoking: ASH calls on the Committee for the Safety of Medicine to show its support. |
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2001-09-24 |
Official survey shows public want action on passive smoking: government out of step and dithering |
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2001-09-10 |
Nicotine vaccine goes on trial - profound development says ASH, if it can be made to work |
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2001-09-09 |
BAT uses covert web site - citygobo.com - to push cigs to clubbers and pub-goers. ASH responds with ‘alternative and truthful’ citygobo2 site |
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2001-09-04 |
New research shows that smokers are less productive at work. ASH calls for Government to bring in long-delayed guidance on smoking at work. |
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2001-08-16 |
Passive smoking at work damages lung function - government must stop dithering on worker protection |
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2001-08-15 |
ASH Opinion poll shows ghost of Ecclestone still haunts Labour |
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2001-08-15 |
The Truth behind Big Tobacco's 'Ethical Marketing' claims. |
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2001-07-27 |
Smuggling keeps the poor smoking; tobacco companies keep the smugglers busy - comment on study published in BMJ |
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2001-07-26 |
Government figures show decline in teenage smoking has stalled - ASH points to delays in tobacco policy |
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2001-07-24 |
30 minutes of passive serious acute impact on blood flow - government dithers over policy - London Assembly to investigate |
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2001-07-17 |
ASH response to Philip Morris' report to the Czech Government on the economic benefits of smoking |
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2001-07-17 |
Tobacco Disclosure Bill will reveal Big Tobacco's dirty secrets |
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2001-07-16 |
Government calls for reduction in tobacco additives demonstrates need for separate tobacco regulatory authority |
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2001-07-05 |
Price-fixing: The Economist reveals BAT, RJR & Philip Morris in global proce collusion. Implications for Kenneth Clarke and DTI investigation |
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2001-06-26 |
Kenneth Clarke for Conservative leader? ASH says he is soiled by his association with BAT |
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2001-06-21 |
Quitting smoking made easier as high street pharmacies offer NRT on the NHS |
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2001-06-20 |
Tobacco Advertising ban U-turn: ASH & senior Labour MP join to condemn Government decision |
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2001-06-18 |
Letter to Alan Milburn, Secretary of State for Health: ASH expresses case for reversing delays to the advertising ban |
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2001-06-18 |
Ministers' views on banning tobacco advertising: a selection of quotes showing strong support |
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2001-06-17 |
Government reportedly delays advertising ban: reaction from leaders of health & medical organisations |
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2001-06-13 |
Buying cheap cigarettes on the internet: an ASH survey shows it is more risky than you might think |
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2001-06-07 |
Tobacco verdict: $3 billion hammer blow to Philip Morris in largest ever individual damages |
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2001-06-01 |
New guidance will restore confidence & save lives: ASH backs Zyban |
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2001-05-31 |
New research reveals parents' ignorance of the health impact of passive smoking on children |
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2001-05-30 |
A good start - but could do better: ASH verdict on EU tobacco ad ban |
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2001-05-18 |
BMJ Editor resigns from Nottingham University over BAT blood money |
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2001-05-15 |
EU turns the screw on tobacco: new warnings, gory pictures, ban on 'light' branding, additive disclosure, tar limits |
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2001-05-10 |
ASH joins with health groups to call for a new Ad ban in first 30 days of new Labour Government |
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2001-05-04 |
ASH calls for US to withdraw from tobacco treaty: EU needs to agree a new approach |
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2001-05-03 |
China sells itself to BAT putting half a billion women at risk |
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2001-05-02 |
BAT annual general meeting: an overview of their conduct |
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2001-04-30 |
Tobacco treaty in danger: sell out by the US, EU & Japan feared |
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2001-04-18 |
Why would cigarette firms tell kids not to smoke? ASH exposes the story behind the latest PR smokescreen |
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2001-04-02 |
Imperial tobacco's venture in Africa: a cover for more smuggling? |
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2001-03-23 |
Why do smokers get more wrinkles? New research explains the aging effects of smoking |
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2001-03-17 |
Students picket Nottingham University: Red Face Day follows Red Nose Day |
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2001-03-14 |
Harder, deeper, longer: experts warn that cutting down can change the way you smoke |
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2001-03-14 |
NRT on prescription & in more shops: great news for smokers on No Smoking Day |
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2001-03-12 |
SASH urges boycott of Nottingham University Open Day |
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2001-03-09 |
Cutting tax would not reduce smuggling: letter to FT |
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2001-03-07 |
Budget: tobacco tax policy stalls in shameless but predictable electioneering |
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2001-03-05 |
ASH pre-budget comment |
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2001-03-04 |
Tobacco companies, cigarette smuggling & organised crime |
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2001-03-02 |
Tobacco ad ban: new research shows importance of water-tight laws |
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2001-02-27 |
Cost of dealing with passive smoking proves negligible: study suggests overhyping by opponents |
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2001-02-27 |
Smoking causes lost recruits during military training: Armed forces join the No-Smoking Day effort |
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2001-02-27 |
ASH presses British Board of Film Classification to take account of smoking |
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2001-02-27 |
Smoking by famous actors influences teenage fans |
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2001-02-20 |
ASH scornful of tobacco industry calls for reduced tobacco tax to tackle smuggling |
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2001-02-14 |
The BBC's Money Programme looks at tobacco smuggling: ASH asks - who is behind the mafia connection? |
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2001-02-03 |
Teenage smoking going up says Julie Burchill: wrong again! |
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2001-01-27 |
Tobacco policy in crisis? smoking on the rise? tax cuts needed? It must be the pre-budget tobacco industry spin season! |
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2001-01-22 |
Ad Bill will save lives, but Flat-Earth Tories ignore evidence & press for more death & disease |
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2000-12-14 |
Top Nottingham student turns down award over tobacco cash |
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2000-12-14 |
Ad Bill published: ASH calls for swift & comprehensive ban to save lives |
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2000-12-06 |
Tobacco advertising & promotion bill will save lives |
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2000-12-04 |
ASH slams BAT cash for 'ethics' |
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2000-11-21 |
Art attck or heart attack? cutting edge artists exhibit powerful anti-smoking work |
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2000-11-06 |
EU takes US tobacco companies to court over tobacco smuggling |
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2000-11-03 |
No Smoking Day on teenagers with mobiles |
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2000-11-03 |
Are mobile phones driving down teenage smoking? |
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2000-10-30 |
BAT to be investigated by UK Government over global cigarette smuggling |
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2000-10-12 |
ASH statement to the WHO hearings in Geneva |
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2000-10-10 |
Danger! PR in the playground: new report reveals tobacco giants' sinister strategy on youth smoking |
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2000-10-05 |
Tobacco ad ban: industry tactics will be thwarted, but delays cost lives |
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2000-10-02 |
Tower Hamlets claws back fag-break time & ends discrimmination against non-smokers |
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2000-09-24 |
Lung cancer overtakes breast cancer in women |
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2000-09-21 |
BAT faces punitive racketeering charges over Colombian smuggling |
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2000-09-13 |
Good to tackle 'pathetic' enforcement of underage cigarette sales law - but don't expect miracles |
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2000-09-11 |
'Cynical' tobacco companies use additives to disguise passive smoking hazards |
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2000-09-11 |
Kids addicted to nicotine as early as 12 & within 4 weeks of smoking |
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2000-09-06 |
New progressive proposals on smoking at work: ASH delighted |
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2000-09-04 |
Passive smoking at work: make or break for the new legal code |
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2000-08-29 |
Brief comment on BAT's submission to the WHO |
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2000-08-16 |
FOREST still inhabits flat earth: ASH heaps scorn on tobacco industry passive smoking 'research' |
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2000-08-02 |
Quitting smoking works. Doll & Peto study in BMJ |
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2000-08-02 |
Tobacco Industry infiltration of the UN & WHO: ASH calls for action |
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2000-07-31 |
BAT at large in Africa: new documents on smuggling |
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2000-07-27 |
NHS to take smoking treatment into the mainstream |
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2000-07-24 |
NHS 'could save millions' by tackling smoking |
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2000-07-24 |
Letter to Wall St. Journal on Industry smuggling |
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2000-07-20 |
New study: 76% of the North East hospitality trade back smoke free areas |
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2000-07-20 |
Cigarette smuggling: EU takes legal action against Big Tobacco |
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2000-06-26 |
Zyban launch: great for smokers but beware the hype |
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2000-06-26 |
New drug promises hope for addicted smokers |
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2000-06-25 |
Tobacco consumption static 1995-9: changes in the pipeline |
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2000-06-15 |
EU ad ban in trouble: UK Government must respond |
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2000-06-14 |
Health Committee sets new anti-tobacco agenda |
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2000-06-12 |
Press briefing on Tobacco Product Directive |
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2000-06-11 |
New anti-smoking drug available on the NHS |
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2000-06-04 |
Smoking drags UK down in the world Health League |
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2000-05-31 |
FIFA challenged over tobacco sponsorship of of Euro2000 TV coverage |
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2000-05-05 |
Tobacco ad ban: legal delays so far will cost over 1,300 lives |
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2000-04-20 |
A bad year for BAT: but £300 million profit from smuggled cigarettes |
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2000-04-07 |
The Lancet publishes damning evidence of tobacco company manipulation of passive smoking science |
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2000-04-06 |
Press release from the International Agency on Research & Cancer |
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2000-04-06 |
Press release from Stanton Glantz |
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2000-04-06 |
New guide shows 40% increase in pubs offering smoke-free areas |
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2000-03-22 |
Tobacco smuggling: at last, a serious & proportional response |
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2000-03-21 |
Kids' lungs harmed by tobacco in the womb |
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2000-03-21 |
Tobacco tax: budget is 'just what the Doctor ordered' |
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2000-03-16 |
UK health groups call for radical tobacco tax budget |
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2000-03-06 |
Smoking still the 'poor relation' in tackling heart disease |
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2000-02-16 |
Health select committee tobacco hearing: BAT goes head-to-head with ASH |
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2000-02-16 |
More evidence of BAT & smuggling |
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2000-02-11 |
New analysis of lung cancer & passive smoking: risks cofirmed |
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2000-02-07 |
Nicotine addiction report is a major broadside on low-tar cigarettes & EU legislation |
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2000-01-31 |
BAT involved in smuggling |
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2000-01-23 |
Genuinely 'less-deadly cigarettes' would help smokers that decide not to quit |
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2000-01-20 |
Canadian super-strong health warnings show the way ahead for EU |
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1999-12-21 |
Second Health Court victory over tobacco companies in a week |
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1999-12-16 |
Tobacco companies thwarted by Appeal Court but more delay for the ad ban |
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1999-12-10 |
Promising start to Government's new mass-media quit campaign |
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1999-12-07 |
MPs told 75% of smuggling is due to organised gangs & large scale fraud |
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1999-12-01 |
1.3 million smokers quit for the millennium |
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1999-11-23 |
launch of new report into smoke-free-zones in pubs |
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1999-11-23 |
Study shows pub takings up by 7% when no-smoking areas introduced |
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1999-11-09 |
Chancellor's pledge to give tobacco tax to the NHS will be money well spent |
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1999-11-08 |
Nicotine addiction: time for a reappraisal? |
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1999-11-07 |
Smuggling increasing: capitulation to organised crime or continue with good health? |
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1999-10-29 |
High court ruling a disappointment but tobacco advertising will still be banned |
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1999-10-28 |
50 Irish pub staff sue: a timely reminder why the UK needs new guidance on passive smoking at work |
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1999-10-26 |
Tragedy of needless deaths among young female smokers |
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1999-10-14 |
Fall in teen smoking is good news but it's too early to draw conclusions |
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1999-10-13 |
Philip Morris 'conversion' 30 years too late |
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1999-10-11 |
Tobacco ad ban: new enforcement powers 'give teeth' but transitional delays are 'pointless appeasement' |
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1999-10-11 |
WHO appoints outside experts to review alleged tobacco industry attempts to 'undermine' UN-wide tobacco control efforts |
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1999-10-07 |
Letter to The FT about pension fund investment in tobacco |
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1999-09-30 |
Letter to The Independent: FOREST misrepresents the scientific case on passive smoking |
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1999-09-14 |
New ASH guide shows non-smoking provision in pubs & restaurants is good for business |
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1999-09-02 |
Response to letter of Paul Mason, Tobacco Alliance |
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1999-08-29 |
Letter to the Publican on protection of workers from passive smoking |
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1999-08-17 |
New passive smoking study shows alarming stroke risks to non-smokers |
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1999-08-10 |
Conservative tobacco policy shift is great first step says ASH |
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1999-07-29 |
Smoking at work code will help 3 million non-smokers fight passive smoking |
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1999-07-14 |
Tobacco companies engineer high addiction cigarettes with additives |
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1999-07-12 |
Letter to Publican in reply to FOREST letter 12/07/99 |
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1999-06-16 |
WHO experts call for protection for 700 million children exposed to passive smoking |
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1999-06-07 |
Letter to Economist about smuggling |
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1999-06-07 |
Letter to Campaign about impact of ad ban |
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1999-06-07 |
Letter to Independent re tobacco industry response to smoking & impotence report |
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1999-06-07 |
Letter to The Publican re. protecting employees from passive smoking |
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1999-06-02 |
120,000 UK men impotent due to smoking |
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1999-05-30 |
Snooker tobacco sponsorship ban delayed |
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1999-05-28 |
ASH challenges British Tobacco company for using World Cup cricket to market cigarettes to third world children |
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1999-05-24 |
Fire safe cigarettes |
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1999-05-24 |
Environmenal impacts of tobacco |
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1999-05-20 |
Letter to Pub Business about FOREST's agressive pro-smoking business cards |
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1999-05-18 |
World Bank report urges Government to take strong measures to curb tobacco |
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1999-05-12 |
Smoker versus hospital case |
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1999-05-11 |
UK Government could be required to recover health care costs from tobacco companies |
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1999-05-04 |
Tory U-turn on tobacco tax would spell disaster for public health |
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1999-04-29 |
BAT-Rothmans sales will kill over a million people per year by 2010: less cancerous cigarettes could make a difference - but regulators should lead |
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1999-04-27 |
WHO wants to regulate tobacco like food or drugs: save hundreds of thousands of lives |
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1999-04-26 |
Tobacco ad men think smokers are stupid! |
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1999-04-25 |
Prince William smokes: but leave him alone & he'll sort it out |
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1999-04-08 |
Survey reveals over 3 million non-smokers exposed to cigarette smoke at work - new guide aimed at tackling the problem |
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1999-03-18 |
Why low-tar cigarettes don't work & how the tobacco industry fools the smoking public |
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1999-03-16 |
Smoking heart victim: out of court settlement |
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1999-03-09 |
Budget tobacco tax: great for health, good for the economy & no cave-in to smugglers |
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1999-03-07 |
Big week for smoking: The Budget, No Smoking Day & new report - Women have greater emotional bond to cigarettes |
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1999-03-03 |
The safer cigarette: what the tobacco industry could do (and why it hasen't done it...) |
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1999-03-01 |
Chancellor urged to increase tobacco tax & ignore tobacco industry smokescreen |
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1999-02-26 |
Tobacco companies escape |
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1999-02-15 |
Citizen Card: good news for retailers but unlikely to reduce teenage smoking |
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1999-02-09 |
Tobacco cases hit by technicality but fight must go on |
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1999-02-02 |
Cocaine addicts confuse drug imact of nicotine & cocaine |
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1998-12-16 |
Advertising judicial review: no surprises, just more timewasting |
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1998-12-10 |
Tobacco White Paper: ASH delighted |
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1998-12-04 |
UK Tobacco litigation starts again |
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1998-11-30 |
Cigarette tax rise: don't let good health & tax policy be diverted by smugglers |
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1998-11-23 |
Smoking & weight myth turned upsidedown |
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1998-11-19 |
'Strictly confidential' document shows BAT recruiting medical spin-doctors to work in China |
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1998-11-13 |
Action to reduce underage tobacco sales |
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1998-10-28 |
British Health Groups demand radical change to cigarette & nicotine regulation |
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1998-10-28 |
First sex warnings on cigarettes in Thailand |
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1998-10-27 |
New research shows that health warnings don't work |
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1998-10-06 |
WHO passive smoking study: tobacco industry & Sunday Telegraph disinformation nailed |
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1998-10-01 |
New ASH website offers hard facts on tobacco & 'rude awakening' on smoking |
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1998-09-22 |
EU ad ban: more pointless legal posturing by the tobacco industry |
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1998-09-17 |
Restaurant association survey based on 'flawed & scaremongering' assumptions |
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1998-09-10 |
Smoking in pregnancy: NHS fails women |
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1998-09-08 |
Cigarette taxes and smoking bans are fair & sensible: smokers don't have equal rights! |
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1998-09-07 |
BAT demerger: legal money laundering |
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1998-08-31 |
Letter in the FT in response to Philip Morris' claims |
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1998-08-12 |
Industry report: irresponsible scaremongering |
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1998-07-27 |
Smoking may reduce penis size: time for the viagra patch? |
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1998-07-09 |
ASH shows F1 why it should cut out cigarettes by 2002 |
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1998-07-08 |
Nature journal is 'silly' on addiction |
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1998-07-06 |
Judicial review: whinging tobacco King Canutes continue to waste time |
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1998-06-25 |
'Tell the truth' - ASH confronts the tobacco industry with its own words |
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1998-06-25 |
Tobacco companies challenged on the web |
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1998-06-09 |
NRT: cheap & effective - so make it more readily available |
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1998-06-03 |
Tobacco 'King Canutes' to attempt judicial review of Government tobacco committee |
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1998-05-21 |
Nurses lose case but victory on key principle |
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1998-05-14 |
Tobacco industry document claims major infiltration of science, including The Lancet & Parliamentary select committee |
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1998-05-13 |
MEPs spurn tobacco industry lobbying & vote for health |
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1998-05-12 |
MEPs urged 'don't bow to Tobacco's dirty tricks' on advertising |
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1998-05-06 |
Nicotine works by pain of withdrawal rather than pleasure of reward |
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1998-05-01 |
'Rapacious & predatory' tobacco giant must be candid about litigation risks to shareholders |
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1998-04-30 |
Secret docs confirm tobacco giant kept smoking dangers from pregnant women |
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1998-04-27 |
Cancer gene research exciting, but don't bet your life on a miracle cure |
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1998-04-22 |
Tobacco ad ban passes penultimate hurdle - but Hague's 'New' Conservatives are still doing Big Tobacco's dirty work |
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1998-04-22 |
Tobacco smuggling: Customs clampdown better than tax climbdown |
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1998-04-20 |
Letter to Financial Times re tobacco advertising |
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1998-04-20 |
Tobacco advertising & Prof. Hugh High |
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1998-04-16 |
Letter to Sunday Telegraph regarding its reporting of passive smoking & attack on ASH |
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1998-04-14 |
Marlboro maker had strategy to buy up British scientists to muddy waters on passive smoking |
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1998-04-02 |
Rail company vindicated over its smoking policy |
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1998-04-01 |
Why low-tar cigarettes don't work & how the tobacco industry fooled the smoking public |
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1998-03-27 |
ASH takes Sunday Telegraph to PCC over 'false & misleading' reporting of passive smoking |
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1998-03-26 |
Latest smoking rates show young people still hooked on positive image of smoking |
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1998-03-17 |
Steep rise in tobacco duties will save 2000+ lives per year & young smokers could retire with over a million! |
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1998-03-08 |
ASH calls for immediate action on low tar cigarettes |
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1998-03-08 |
Response to alledged suppression of WHO passive smoking report |
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1998-03-05 |
Beware Formula 1 offer: it is mischief & skullduggery designed to wreck the tobacco ad directive |
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1998-02-18 |
Smoking in films: major ad agency says it is a key tobacco industry marketing ploy |
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1998-02-15 |
BAT documents show that addicting customers is core business |
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1998-02-12 |
Lung cancer victims win first skirmish with tobacco companies |
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1998-02-05 |
Health Green Paper - sound philosophy must translate into action & money |
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1998-01-21 |
Tobacco ad ban would create new jobs |
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1998-01-13 |
Publicans and restaurant owners have nothing to fear about smoking bans |
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1997-12-20 |
ASH letter to Spanish Health Minister re Spanish position on tobacco ads in EU |
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1997-12-16 |
Ads show truth about smoking |
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1997-12-15 |
Nicotine inhaler should be available on the NHS |
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1997-12-04 |
ASH condemns Spanish 11th hour U-turn on tobacco ad directive |
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1997-12-02 |
Unrepentant BAT offers two fingers to EU in massive new formula 1 tobacco deal |
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1997-11-26 |
ASH welcomes proposal to raise legal age for purchasing tobacco from 16 to 18 |
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1997-11-25 |
Blair on Tobacco: judgement day 4th December |
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1997-11-20 |
Tobacco & formula 1: hole in the Government case |
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1997-11-14 |
ASH pushes for new momentum on tobacco advertising |
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1997-11-10 |
ASH warns employers, including pubs & restaurants: the law requires you to protect staff from passive smoking |
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1997-11-05 |
Tobacco bully-boy tactics force Government to weaken commitment to ad ban |
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1997-11-04 |
Smoke free bars still make money in the US - why not here? |
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1997-10-24 |
Philip Morris gadget breaks the Marlboro myth |
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1997-10-17 |
New evidence on risks of passive smoking |
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1997-10-17 |
Passive smoking: summary of new findings from California EPA report |
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1997-10-17 |
Health effects of environmental tobacco smoke |
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1997-10-16 |
Former Health MInister Kenneth Clarke joins BAT Board - shame on him says ASH |
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1997-10-15 |
Four changes to the legal system that would bring justice for victims of tobacco |
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1997-10-10 |
Parents' smoking causes lung illness in children - new evidence of link |
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1997-09-11 |
Four changes to the legal system that would bring justice for victims of tobacco |
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1997-09-11 |
Public support for tobacco ad ban signals need for strong Government action |
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1997-08-19 |
World Conference on Tobacco or Health. Beijing. |
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1997-07-14 |
Government means business on smoking policy |
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1997-07-12 |
Good news that government is considering raising smoking age to 18 |
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1997-07-10 |
'War on smoking' starts Monday |
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1997-07-02 |
ASH welcomes cigarette tax hike |
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1997-07-01 |
Public versus private statements by tobacco companies |
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1997-07-01 |
UK litigation - victims say they were deceived |
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1997-06-21 |
Press background: summary of the US settlement |
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1997-06-21 |
Tobacco deal in the US - the beginning of the end for Big Tobacco? |
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1997-06-18 |
Press briefing: US tobacco settlement - what would it mean for the UK |
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1997-06-16 |
Green campaigner & marketing specialist takes charge at ASH |
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1997-05-19 |
Ban on tobacco sponsorship is wonderful news |
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1997-04-17 |
Cut-price mailorder cigarettes found to be illegal |
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1997-04-16 |
Win for mail order cigarettes could spell disaster for health & wealth of UK |
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1997-04-14 |
ASH welcomes Queen's ban on tobacco advertising |
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1997-03-21 |
At last the tobacco industry admit that nicotine is addictive |
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1997-03-14 |
ASH welcomes Mississippi decision |
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1996-11-26 |
Chancellor heeds health calls on cigarettes |
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1996-09-27 |
ASH welcomes legal action against the tobacco industry |
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1996-09-05 |
Teenage smokers show early signs of addiction |
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1996-08-23 |
ASH welcomes Clinton's move to regulate tobacco |
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1996-08-19 |
Young children not protected by tobacco advertising code |
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1996-07-30 |
ASH faces legal threat from the tobacco indutry |
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1996-07-19 |
Dons grab BAT blood money |
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1996-07-17 |
Legal Aid Board decision denies justice for smokers |
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1996-07-15 |
ASH launches new offensive to bring down the tobacco industry |
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1996-06-27 |
Guernsey leads the way in tobacco control |
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1996-06-11 |
Teenage smokers: the fool themselves about the risks, but love might make them quit & price might stop them starting |
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1996-06-06 |
Guernsey leads the way in tobacco control |
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1996-06-04 |
Philip Morris campaign |
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1996-05-31 |
Sports sponsorship |
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1996-05-21 |
BAT sponsors school |
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1996-04-25 |
ASH calls on BAT shareholders to abandon the sinking ship |
