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HNY Centre For Excellence
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Committed to ending the harm caused by tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink
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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · 5d
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Big red ball touring around Yorkshire to help people quit smoking
An eight-foot red ball is touring towns around York as part of an annual stop-smoking campaign in its 14th year.
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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · 7d
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Big Red Stoptober Ball rolls around Humber and North Yorkshire
Smoking remains the single leading cause of preventable ill health and death across Humber and North Yorkshire, with smoking rates still higher than the national average. This Stoptober, with more hel...
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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · 17d
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Rates of smoking in pregnancy fall sharply across Yorkshire and the Humber
The proportion of women smoking during pregnancy across Yorkshire and the Humber has fallen significantly according to data published by NHS England.
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Alcohol Health Alliance UK @aha-uk.bsky.social · 28d
Public opinion is clear: people want government to do more to tackle poor health from smoking, alcohol and food.

New polling from @ashorguk.bsky.social , @oha-updates.bsky.social and AHA, breaks down public opinion on health policies by political affiliation.

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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · 29d
uncertaintyprinciples.substack.com/p/ultra-proc... “Ultra-Processing Is the Bathwater. What About the Baby? Recent obsession with ultra-processed foods spotligTaubesworld of industry-related issues, while rendering sugar & refined grains almost benign in the process”
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Ultra-Processing Is the Bathwater. What About the Baby?
The recent obsession with ultra-processed foods spotlights a world of industry-related issues, while rendering sugar and refined grains almost benign in the process.
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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · 29d
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Unicef, an agency of the United Nations, is urging governments to protect children's diets from unhealthy ingredients and stop the ultra-processed food industry from interfering in policy decisions.
More children are obese than underweight, Unicef warns
Traditional, healthy diets are being replaced by ultra-processed foods, often high in sugar and additives, the UN agency says.
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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · Aug 22
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Baby food firms told to cut sugar and stop promoting snacks for under-ones
Manufacturers who do not make products healthier within 18 months may face action, the government says.
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Cancer Research UK Policy @crukpolicy.bsky.social · Aug 19
2/ More needs to be done to ensure young people are not exposed to products not intended for them.

CRUK is calling on Govts across the UK & regulators to:

📢 Communicate rules clearly

🔍 Monitor & enforce legislation

💰 Fund enforcement bodies

📉 Restrict paid-for advertising
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · Aug 13
🚭 New ASH data reveals inequalities in second-hand smoke exposure at work. While 14% of people in GB report workplace exposure, the figure soars in particular industries:

• Transport – 41%
• Hospitality – 38%
• Electric, gas, water supply – 33%

Where is your job on the list?
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Alcohol Health Alliance UK @aha-uk.bsky.social · Aug 6
Our Chair, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, spoke to @lbc.co.uk today on why government action on alcohol harm is long overdue, and why we need a national alcohol strategy to save lives, reduce NHS pressures and build a fairer, healthier Britain.

📻Listen from 10:52am www.globalplayer.com/live/lbcnews...
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Alcohol Health Alliance UK @aha-uk.bsky.social · Aug 8
🚫The alcohol, gambling & junk food industries have no place providing educational materials to schools.🚫

58 leading academics & orgs have written to @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social urging her to follow Ireland’s lead in removing these materials from classrooms.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Health experts urge ban on school materials backed by food, drink and gambling firms
Exclusive: Education secretary told sponsored resources misrepresent evidence about diets, alcohol and betting
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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · Aug 6
Government plans to tackle alcohol deaths “are not sufficient to address the scale and complexity of harm”

Academics, medics and charities from around the country have urged ministers to take “ambitious” action to tackle the “scale of the current crisis”

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Wes Streeting warned alcohol measures ‘are not sufficient’ to stop harm
The Government has recently set out its 10-year plan to improve the health of the nation.
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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · Aug 8
In an open letter to the Education Secretary @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, we’ve called for the government to end the influence of the alcohol, gambling, and junk food industries in our schools.

Children should be protected from industry misinformation.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Health experts urge ban on school materials backed by food, drink and gambling firms
Exclusive: Education secretary told sponsored resources misrepresent evidence about diets, alcohol and betting
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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · Aug 8
The alcohol, gambling and junk food industries have no place providing educational materials to schools.

58 leading academics and orgs have urged Education Secretary @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social to follow Ireland’s lead in removing these materials from classrooms.

As Prof Chris van Tulleken states:
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · Aug 7
#4 Stubbornly high rates of youth vaping is undermining their use as smoking cessation tools
Vaping is meant to help adults quit smoking - but youth use is far too high, and misinformation is rampant. The Bill will allow us to target what’s driving youth uptake. 📉
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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · Aug 8
We are proud to support this important letter.

We must end the influence of the alcohol, gambling, and junk food industries in our schools.

Urgent action is needed to prevent this form of influence and conflict of interest.
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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · Aug 8
In an open letter to the Education Secretary @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social, we’ve called for the government to end the influence of the alcohol, gambling, and junk food industries in our schools.

Children should be protected from industry misinformation.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Health experts urge ban on school materials backed by food, drink and gambling firms
Exclusive: Education secretary told sponsored resources misrepresent evidence about diets, alcohol and betting
www.theguardian.com
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Institute of Alcohol Studies @ias.org.uk · Aug 6
We have signed this letter to Wes Streeting (@rthonwesstreeting.bsky.social) highlighting the current scale of alcohol harm, and how insufficient the measures in the 10 Year Health Plan are.

There is so much more that the government could do, as the letter explains.
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Alcohol Health Alliance UK @aha-uk.bsky.social · Aug 6
✍️ Joined by over 30 leading health and policy experts, we have written to Secretary of State Wes Streeting MP, urging him to revisit the current approach to tackling alcohol harm and commit to an evidence-based strategy that reflects the true scale of the current crisis.

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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · Aug 5
🚭Ending smoking in the UK requires bold action and evidence-based policies. ASH CEO @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social discusses policies needed and the strong public support for action towards a smokefree UK.

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How can we end smoking in the UK?
What would it take to end smoking in 20 years? asks Hazel Cheeseman, CEO of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · Aug 1
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · Aug 1
Happy Yorkshire Day to all our colleagues in the region showing leadership on public health.
We're proud to partner with @cfex.bsky.social on a new toolkit to support areas to take action on alcohol and unhealthy food and drink, learning lessons from tobacco.
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Three Biggest Killers – Regional Toolkit - ASH
This toolkit was developed by ASH, the Obesity Heath Alliance (OHA) and the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA) working with colleagues in Humber and North Yorkshire and Greater Manchester to support region...
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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · Jul 25
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Record rise in number of smokers using Stop Smoking Services in Humber and North Yorkshire
New figures published today (24th July) have shown that the number of people trying to quit smoking with the help of Stop Smoking Services across Humber and North Yorkshire over the last year has incr...
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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · Jul 24
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This year marks 25 years since stop smoking services were launched in England. Today’s new data gives us a timely look at what these services are doing- and why they still matter.👇 digital.nhs.uk/data-and-inf...
Part 1 - Quit attempts and self-reported quit rates by demographic variables - NHS England Digital
We’re the national information and technology partner to the health and social care system using digital technology to transform the NHS and social care
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · Jul 17
Why do we tolerate the activities of the gambling industry?

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The Perils of pragmatism. More research prolongs a crisis
Guns and slot machines: One claims safety, the other claims fun
Extraction to extinction
The flow of data

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Why do we tolerate the activities of the gambling industry?
This article explains how gambling policy in the UK perpetuates exceptionalism by, among other things, promoting a way of understanding the drivers of…
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Greg Fell @felly500.bsky.social · Jul 14
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A heat map of diabetes does not improve access to nutritional food or reshape the commercial landscape promoting ultraprocessed foods in low income areas. A wearable heart rate monitor tracking variability cannot counter harms of exploitative labour or precarious housing
Precision public health must get political
As the Precision Public Health Asia conference approaches, Kent Buse and colleagues caution that the specialty risks becoming a high tech fix for deeply political problems In The Time Machine by HG W...
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HNY Centre For Excellence @cfex.bsky.social · Jul 14
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High-street slot machines reap record takings as councils call for power to curb spread
Local authorities want government to make it easier to stop flurry of ‘adult gaming centres’ targeting poorer areas
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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · Jul 14
Outgoing NHS Medical Director Prof Sir Powis highlights the importance of prevention, noting that measures like the smoking ban for younger generations could help eliminate certain cancers.
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Cancer breakthroughs mean disease ‘no longer a death sentence’
Professor Sir Stephen Powis believes that an impending ‘treatment revolution’ means that more cures will be found
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