Tag Archives: heart disease
Smoking, the Heart and Circulation
Tobacco use is the leading behavioural risk factor for cardiovascular diseases including heart disease and stroke. Smoking causes around 20,000 deaths from heart and circulatory disease in the UK each year. August 2021.
Secondhand Smoke
Breathing other people’s smoke is called passive, involuntary or secondhand smoking. Health impacts range from eye irritation, headache, cough and sore throat, to heart disease and lung cancer. March 2020.
Recent Posts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and SPECTRUM representation to HM Treasury’s Spending Review (SR21) and Budget
In September 2021, ASH and SPECTRUM, a public health research consortium of academics from 10 UK universities and partner organisations …
Tobacco and the Environment
From growing the tobacco plant to the disposal of butts and packaging, the whole life cycle of a cigarette takes …Smoking and Meningococcal Disease
Exposure to tobacco smoke via both active and passive smoking has been shown to increase the risk of developing meningococcal …
Smoking, the Heart and Circulation
Tobacco use is the leading behavioural risk factor for cardiovascular diseases including heart disease and stroke. Smoking causes around 20,000 …
Smoking-related poverty concentrated in the North and Midlands
23rd July 2021 New analysis [1] of national data commissioned by health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) finds …
