Since e-cigarettes are not licensed as medicines, GPs are unable to prescribe vapes to people trying to quit smoking unless there is a locally agreed NHS scheme to do so. Some local authorities do offer vapes to smokers who are looking to quit. Guidelines, external recommend people try a licensed stop smoking medicine first, though […]
Health charities have welcomed the bill, which will be subject to consultation for the next six months. Action on Smoking and Health said it would help create a country where young people would never start smoking. “It is important to have the debate about how we will protect children and vulnerable people from the harms […]
Mick Bain has been a publican for 15 years and runs two venues in the inner Sydney suburb of Glebe. He agrees that smokers tend to drink more – “so maybe there was a bit of a loss of revenue there initially. But as more families started coming to us for pub meals, it sort […]
Those in the hospitality sector worry the ban will further hurt businesses. The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), which represents 20,000 pubs in the UK, said pub numbers had significantly decreased because of factors including the Covid pandemic and energy crisis. “This needs to be thought through very carefully before we damage businesses and […]
Health professionals have welcomed the proposals. Dr Layla McCay of the NHS Confederation told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the plans would reduce “the huge problems that are caused to the individual and to society from smoking.” Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), said the public expected “not […]
What was actually in the vape was a synthetic cannabinoid, a lab-made drug, external intended to mimic the effects of cannabis. “After using it [Spice] for a while, I realised the effects of real THC would be different,” says Ben. “I don’t know why I didn’t realise this sooner but the colour was very artificial […]
The share of Americans who report smoking cigarettes is back at a record low this year, according to new polling from Gallup. The Gallup survey found that 11 percent of U.S. adults said that they have smoked cigarettes in the past week, which matches the historic low smoking rate measured in 2022. This is also just […]
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Pesticides may cause cancer on a level equivalent to smoking cigarettes, a new study has found. The widespread use of pesticides may lead to hundreds of thousands of additional cancer cases in major corn-producing states like Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and Ohio — even for Americans who don’t work on farms, according to findings published Thursday in Frontiers in Cancer […]
Younger women could benefit from targeted interventions to tackle the apparent rise, researchers say. Source link