Professor John Britton, chair of the RCP’s Tobacco Advisory Group, commenting on the new draft guidance from NICE, Tobacco: harm-reduction approaches to smoking,said:
A cross-party group of MPs have today released Delivering the vision of a ‘Smokefree Generation’, a report outlining a number of measures aimed at reducing smoking prevalence in the UK population to 5% or below.
Almost 60 years after the RCP’s first report on tobacco, Smoking and health, published in 1962, this new report from the RCP’s Tobacco Advisory Group reviews the UK’s progress in reducing smoking pr
Commenting on the BMA’s review of evidence on passive smoking in vehicles, professor John Britton, chair of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Tobacco Advisory Group, said:
On World No Tobacco Day, the Royal College of Physicians has responded to Cancer Research UK analysis that estimates that tobacco causes the death of one person every five minutes in the UK.
The RCP produced its first report on tobacco Smoking and Health in 1962, launching six decades of action on tobacco control. At the time around 70% of men and 40% of women smoked.
