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13 May 2025

Unprecedented progress in tackling smoking during pregnancy threatened by NHS cuts, experts warn

A coalition of baby charities is warning that unprecedented progress in reducing the number of women smoking during pregnancy in England is being put at risk by NHS funding cuts.

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08 May 2025

Demand for action on UK’s ‘top three killers’ ahead of Government's 10-Year Health Plan

As the Government prepares to publish its 10-Year Plan to improve health, a coalition of health experts is calling for tough action on the UK’s three biggest preventable killers — tobacco, alcohol, and unhealthy food and drink — to relieve growing pressure on NHS services.

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02 April 2025

Big Tobacco must pay: New report demands urgent action from MPs to end smoking within a generation

A major new report launched by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking and Health calls for all political parties to back a bold, fully funded strategy to make smoking obsolete within 20 years.

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27 March 2025

ASH welcomes progress of historic smoking bill

MPs tonight voted to pass the historic Tobacco and Vapes Bill which will phase out the sale of tobacco to the next generation

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26 March 2025

Ending the sale of tobacco will increase UK jobs

Phasing out tobacco would create 135,000 new full-time equivalent (FTE) UK jobs and increase the size of the economy by nearly £10 billion.

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18 March 2025

Patients in mental health wards need better quit support as government prepares to ban smoking on hospital grounds

New research from ASH finds that people admitted to mental health trusts have better access to treatment for smoking than they did 5 years ago but are being let down by a failure to create smokefree care environments.

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