Guest post by Peter Worland The ubiquitous Myanmar tea house. You can hear the buzz of Burmese conversation emanating from such meeting places day and night. Old people on their daily catch up with neighbours meet here. Young people hang out and compare their new mobile phones here. New mums show off their beautiful […]
Month: April 2014
Standardised packaging – UK moves closer
The UK is one step closer to introducing standardized packaging for tobacco products. In an address to the House of Commons, Jane Ellison MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, called for swift action in light of the recent report confirming the likely positive impact standardized packaging would have on the health of children. […]
e-cigarettes hot topic in global tobacco control
At the 6th European Conference on Tobacco Control in Turkey last month, the panel discussion on e-cigarettes was one of the most popular and controversial sessions on offer. While much of the data presented was from the UK, there is near universal agreement that e-cigarette use has risen in the past few years, that some […]