Reports
Stepping up: The response of stop smoking services in England to the COVID-19 pandemic
This report, written in partnership with Cancer Research UK, examines the performance of stop smoking services in England during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. The proportion of local authorities commissioning a specialist stop smoking service has risen year-on-year from 65% in 2018 and 69% in 2019 to 77% in 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic forced local authorities […]
Read MoreSmokefree Skills: Training needs of mental health nurses and psychiatrists
This report examines the current training of mental health nurses and psychiatrists to help their patients quit smoking. Download report. Download executive summary.
Read MoreSmoking, employability, and earnings
This report sets out findings from a analysis conducted by Landman Economics for ASH looking at the impact of smoking on employment and earnings in terms of lost income across the UK. Smoking has a significant negative impact on individual earnings and employment prospects, with long-term smokers being 7.5% less likely to be employed than […]
Read MoreMany ways forward
This report presents the findings from an online survey of tobacco control leads in local authorities in England. Findings include that many opportunities exist for local authority commissioners of tobacco control and stop smoking services to build on their past successes and improve their local offer. These include joint working with colleagues in other local […]
Read MoreProgress towards smokefree mental health services
This report presents the findings of a survey of NHS mental health trusts in England conducted by ASH for Public Health England in Spring 2019. It examines whether the Government’s objective for all mental health trusts to be smokefree by 2018 has been achieved. It describes […]
Read MoreSmokefree Skills: Community Mental Health
ASH analysis, based on a survey of mental health professionals (nurses and psychiatrists) working in the community, found that there is low awareness of very brief advice (VBA) among mental health nurses and psychiatrists; that prescribing medications for smoking cessation is not common practice amongst community mental health professional; and that a substantial proportion of […]
Read MoreSmoking and Poverty
The information below summarises an analysis by Howard Reed of Landman Economics for Action on Smoking and Health, entitled “Smoking and Poverty”. The research shows that the high cost of tobacco is driving over a million people in the UK into poverty. Furthermore, poverty rates across all smoking households increase from around one fifth (22.3%) […]
Read MoreThe Costs of Smoking to Social Care
The information below summarises an analysis by Howard Reed of Landman Economics for Action on Smoking & Health, entitled “The Cost of Smoking to the Social Care System in England” first carried out in 2014 and last updated in September 2019. The research shows that smoking not only contributes to the social care bill but […]
Read MoreA Change in the Air
A Change in the Air presents the findings of a study of smokefree policy and practice in mental health trusts in England. The findings are principally drawn from a survey of mental health trusts conducted in the summer of 2018. The aim of this study is to describe the progress made by mental health […]
Read MoreSmoking in the home: New solutions for a Smokefree Generation
Report Smoking in the home: New solutions for a Smokefree Generation considers the impact of smoking in the home and what policy measures could be taken across all housing tenures to reduce its prevalence, with the aim of protecting children and adults and supporting healthy communities. The report calls for collaboration between […]
Read MoreSmoking in pregnancy challenge group, Review of the Challenge 2018
The Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge Group released a report on the 4th July 2018 calling for Government action to tackle smoking in pregnancy. The new report shines light on the progress towards the Government’s ambition to reduce the smoking in pregnancy rate to less than 6% by 2022 and warns that unless more is done […]
Read MoreSmokefree Skills: an assessment of maternity workforce training
This report provides an analysis of the training that midwives and obstetricians receive to address smoking in pregnant women, and what further training is needed. Smoking is a major cause of stillbirth and sudden infant death, and also leads to more babies being born with health problems and with a low birth weight. You can […]
Read MoreSmokefree: The First Ten Years
Produced to mark the tenth anniversary of smokefree legislation in England, this report looks at the shifting public attitudes towards smoking and tobacco control measures over the past decade. The report is based on ten years of data from the ASH / YouGov Smokefree England survey. Smokefree: the first ten years
Read MoreCounter Arguments – How important is tobacco to small retailers?
This report scrutinises the messages sent to small retailers by the tobacco industry and asks whether the traditional approach to selling tobacco in small shops is still in retailers’ best interests, given the ongoing decline in the market and the recent changes to how tobacco is sold. The findings in this report are drawn from two […]
Read MoreTobacco and Oral Health
This report provides an overview of the health impact of smoking and smokeless tobacco on on oral health.
Read MoreRecent Posts
Stepping up: The response of stop smoking services in England to the COVID-19 pandemic
This report, written in partnership with Cancer Research UK, examines the performance of stop smoking services in England during the …
Rapid innovation by local councils helped smokers quit during pandemic
07 January 2021 Rapid innovation by local councils helped smokers quit during pandemic In normal times smokers seeking help to …380,000 ‘non-smokers’ regularly smoke cannabis, putting their health at risk
19 December 2020 A new study published in the journal Addiction finds significant levels of cannabis use among people who …Smokefree Skills: Training needs of mental health nurses and psychiatrists
This report examines the current training of mental health nurses and psychiatrists to help their patients quit smoking. Download report. …1 in 4 smokers has a mental health condition but doctors and nurses not getting the training they need to help
16 December 2020 A new report published today by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) [1] has found the current …
