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15 Aug 13 |
Towards a Generation Free from Tobacco
Scotland’s new five year tobacco strategy, ‘Creating a Tobacco-free Generation’, was launched on March 27th this year. It sets out a plan for action across the key themes of health inequalities, prevention, protection and cessation. Headlining the strategy was a commitment to setting 2034 as a target date for reducing smoking ...
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23 Jan 13 |
New Year, New Ambitions
The recent decisive ruling in the Supreme Court in favour of the Scottish Government and against Imperial Tobacco and the failure of its vending machine subsidiary Sinclair Collis to pursue its legal case further after two defeats in the Scottish courts bodes well. This ruling clears the way for the implementation of delayed tobacco ...
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16 Oct 12 |
Smoke-free Ahead?
As we await sight of a draft of Scotland’s new national tobacco control strategy, an important document that will set the direction for much of our work in the coming years, I wanted to reflect on some of the bolder suggestions that have been made for reducing tobacco use and tobacco related harm internationally. […]
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