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Emerging evidence from China shows smokers with COVID-19 are 14 times more likely to develop severe respiratory disease.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Over half of smokers believe nicotine vaping products are equally or more harmful than smoking despite US vaping deaths being caused by substances banned in UK.
The latest data from a national smoking study indicates adult smoking rates fell 2.2% from January to July 2019 - equivalent to 200 fewer smokers every hour.
Survey finds that more than two-thirds of NHS acute trusts in England now prohibit smoking on site as part of their journey to becoming smokefree.
PHE report on e-cigarette use finds that regular vaping remains low among young people, and has plateaued among adults.
Hospital trust establishes a health and wellbeing team to provide a wide variety of programmes to help employees lead a healthier lifestyle.
The Health Harms campaign encourages smokers to quit, by demonstrating the harms to health that come from every cigarette.
Sheffield Health and Social Care NHS Foundation Trust is reducing harm from tobacco to service users and staff, addressing complex implementation challenges.
Using selected e-cigarette stores in Essex, training staff to deliver stop smoking support to their customers wishing to quit smoking by using an e-cigarette.
PHE encourages people to join in the mass quit attempt, Stoptober, and get the right stop smoking support for them.
If we get the NHS long-term plan right, we will prevent 3 of the biggest killers, says CEO of Public Health England.
The international agreement aims to significantly reduce the illicit tobacco market both in the UK and worldwide.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
On No Smoking Day, PHE advises going ‘cold turkey’ is least effective way to quit.
Public Health England's new TV advert highlights the dangers of tar in cigarettes, urging England’s 7 million smokers to quit using Smokefree this New Year.
Public Health England event in Birmingham promotes government tobacco control plan and the drive to make the NHS smoke-free by 2019.
Expert report, which coincides with launch of Stoptober, says there has never been a better time to stop smoking.
Letter to NHS trust and foundation trust (FT) chief executives in England.
The Helping Smokers Quit Programme is a call to action for all clinicians in London to tackle tobacco dependence.
Harmful drinking, Zika virus and travel, new PHE and DH antibiotic resistance video, and changes to population screening programes highlighted.
Around 25,000 deaths each year in England are attributable to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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