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Publication #2086
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Name
Towards a future without tobacco: The Report of The Smoking Prevention Working Group
Categories
Scottish Government
Organization
Scottish Executive
Keywords
NHS
SCOTLAND SMOKING
CIGARETTES
YOUNG PEOPLE
PRIORITIES
HEALTH PROMOTION
ADDICTION
MARKETING
ADVERTISING
TRENDS
PREVALENCE
INCIDENCE
Description
More than any other single thing, the cigarette has blighted the health and shortened the lives of people in Scotland for over a century. Tobacco is now known to be a highly addictive substance that seriously damages the health of both smokers and people exposed to tobacco smoke. If the health of people in Scotland is to be improved and inequalities reduced, smoking prevention must be a top priority.
This report makes a comprehensive series of recommendations intended to protect and dissuade all young people in Scotland from starting to smoke and to deter adults, individually and collectively, from encouraging or enabling them to smoke. Their full implementation should take Scotland much further towards a future where smoking tobacco has become a thing of the past
This report makes a comprehensive series of recommendations intended to protect and dissuade all young people in Scotland from starting to smoke and to deter adults, individually and collectively, from encouraging or enabling them to smoke. Their full implementation should take Scotland much further towards a future where smoking tobacco has become a thing of the past
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Created
2006-11-21 00:00:00
Download URL
External Link: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2006/11/21155256/1
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