Tobacco Substance Abuse Health United Kingdom

Tobacco

Nicotine is the addictive ingredient in tobacco which causes cigarette, cigar and pipe smokers to become addicted to this substance.

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• - Promotes tobacco control by working mainly with national medical associations in Europe. Encourages doctors to stop smoking and provides information to enable doctors to help their patients quit.
  
• - Government Response to the Health Select Committee's Second Report on the Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking, published in October 2000
  
• - Results of the government commissioned review of tobacco and its effects on Health. Published in 1998.
  
• - Collection of Guardian articles on smoking, tobacco, secondhand smoke, politics, public policy.
  
• - At least 1,000 people a year are dying from the effects of passive smoking yet the public enjoys less protection from other people's tobacco smoke than from the chimes of ice-cream vans, the British Medical Association says.
  
• - No Smoking Day comes once a year. The web site is available all year round to provide support for quitters and for professionals.
  
• - A guide to smoke free places in Birmingham, as well as information on how to quit.
  
• - Tobacco and smoking fact sheets, statistics, news, projects, policies, and resources.
  
• - Official site produced by the NHS Health Education Authority. Useful advice on how to give up and you can ask for regular supportive e-mails.
  
• - Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
  
• - Practical advice on giving up. Telephone helpline available.
  
• - A stop smoking programme available to employers and to health clubs.
  
• - An alliance of organisations working together to encourage a reduction in the prevalence of smoking through education and advice. Also includes the Totally Smoke Free Norfolk Eating Guide.
  
• - An alliance of agencies working together to improve the health of all Londoners by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco.
  
• - This official document outlines the government strategy to reduce smoking, published in 1998.
  
• - Group aims to reduce the risk of smoking to the health and welfare of the people in Oxfordshire. Information on smoking, tobacco, quitting, smokefree dining.
  
  

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