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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 6h

We are appalled that public service broadcaster the BBC continues to provide a platform for tobacco industry giant, British American Tobacco, to lobby against the Tobacco & Vapes Bill.
So we fixed the headline for them...

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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 6h

Govt launches call for evidence to shape new regulations on key aspects of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill.
www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

Shops to require licence to sell vapes under proposed crackdown on rogue traders

A licensing system would ‘root out’ rogue operators and give enforcement officers stronger powers to shut them down, the Government said.

www.independent.co.uk

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 1h

Who are these psychopaths with 1 tab open?

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 2h

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 11h

It doesn't mean the death of hospitality (it is apparently possible to socialise without being drunk I've heard) and it doesn't mean obliterating alcohol from society altogether. But perhaps just a little more moderation would be good for all of us?

Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 11h

Alcohol is a major cause of harm to health and society. Taking actions to create workplaces and communities where we consume less is basically good for everyone other than people like CEO of Diagio.

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 11h

In the meantime @ippr.org reports that young people in the UK feel pressured to drink alcohol at work with knock on effects for productivity. Perhaps we could create work places that don't make our young people (or anyone else) feel compelled to have a drink? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

New taxes could solve job-related drinking ‘productivity crisis’

IPPR also said the government should take action on the ‘cheapest, strongest drinks which cause the most harm’

www.independent.co.uk

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 11h

Fewer young Europeans are drinking alcohol in part due to health concerns but the CEO of Diagio isn't buying it. Definitely not that people feel better when they don't consume your product... www.reuters.com/business/eur...

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 2d

A cigarette 'filter' does not filter to make smoking less harmful. It was an incredible tobacco industry lie to keep people smoking when the evidence of how lethal it was started to emerge, a lie that has endured into the 21st C. Any suggestions for a more accurate word to describe them?

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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 4d

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

Jeffrey J. Hall @mrjeffu.bsky.social · 19d

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 12d

Our PR from the summer: ash.org.uk/media-centre...

New Data on Vaping Uncovers a Public Health Disconnect - ASH

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a campaigning public health charity that works to eliminate the harm caused by tobacco.

ash.org.uk

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 12d

Great article from @iansample.bsky.social. Starts with info on the significant harms to oral health from smoking and moves on to give nuanced assessment of the more limited evidence on vaping. If all coverage was like this then a majority of Brits would not think that vaping was as bad as smoking.

Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 12d

There's been a few articles this week about vaping and oral health. This excellent article sets out the facts and crucially also highlights the extreme damage that smoking does to oral health.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What is the impact of vaping on teeth and oral health?

We look at the science behind vaping and the claims it causes tooth decay, gum disease and dry mouth

www.theguardian.com

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 12d

Here's the latest in our series on "adult gaming centres", high street 24hr slot machine shops.

Today shop workers and gamblers tell us stories of human misery. The govt is giving councils more power to stop "unwanted" shops. Is it enough? 🧵

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

‘I can’t escape these machines’: addicts tell of huge losses from slot gambling

Councils given more powers to stop ‘unwanted’ sites opening, as number of UK slot machines exceeds 30,000

www.theguardian.com

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 15d

Lets circulate some well researched content on a day when complete nonsense is being thrown around

Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 15d

Earlier this year, I spent considerable time working on an essay for @ftweekend.com about issues around autism: www.ft.com/content/d1ba... I read a great deal about the condition and spoke to several experts. There is no indication whatever that use of a single drug in pregnancy is linked to it.

In search of a diagnosis

How my son’s autism assessment sent me on an investigation into my own past

www.ft.com

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 15d

What a world. As if you don't have enough to be stressed about when your pregnant without having to navigate this nonsense.

Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 15d

“Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons”

‘Don’t pay any attention to what Trump says about medicine’, Wes Streeting tells Britons – UK politics live

Medical experts concerned alarms after US president warned pregnant women to avoid taking Tylenol in move contradicted by research

www.theguardian.com

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 16d

I realise this is mostly an important message about climate change but it's nice to see the visible confirmation of how wet my socks were during three years at a Welsh university

Katherine T. Tyson @katherinettyson.bsky.social · 17d

3D depiction of rainfall distribution across Great Britain.

England is a very dry place: London gets as much rain as Jerusalem.

With climate change, the south will need to prepare for even more acute water shortages.

Image of water distribution across the United Kingdom, demonstrating most rainfall happens along the western coast and Scotland. The image is by Alasdair Rae

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 16d

Great to see this study out showing the scope for vape regulation that does not damage the likelihood of adult smokers switching to vaping. If Parliament can get on and pass the Tobacco and Vapes Bill then measures like this can be implemented: www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

www.itv.com

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 19d

Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 18d

Strange choice at any time, particularly ahead of budget where further taxes on industry are on the table. Let’s hope she intends to also meet those making the case on the health / mental health side eg @willprochaska.bsky.social

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 18d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist’s event amid tax review

Chancellor’s invitation criticised as ‘strange timing’ with Treasury looking at whether to raise duties on £12bn sector

www.theguardian.com

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 18d

Strange choice at any time, particularly ahead of budget where further taxes on industry are on the table. Let’s hope she intends to also meet those making the case on the health / mental health side eg @willprochaska.bsky.social

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 18d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Rachel Reeves due to appear at gambling lobbyist’s event amid tax review

Chancellor’s invitation criticised as ‘strange timing’ with Treasury looking at whether to raise duties on £12bn sector

www.theguardian.com

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Action on Smoking Health (UK) @ashorguk.bsky.social · 23d

The APPG on Smoking & Health’s Co-Chair @marykfoymp.bsky.social wrote to the Guardian 📰 making the case for a polluter pays levy on tobacco companies 🚭.

£700m per year direct from industry (not taxpayers!) to fund smoking cessation services.

What’s not to like! 🙌

🔗 Read here: shorturl.at/O8bBv

Get tough on tobacco and alcohol firms to improve public health | Letters

Letters: Hazel Cheeseman, Prof Sir Ian Gilmore and Katharine Jenner call for minimum unit pricing, a levy on profits, and policies to improve food and drink. Plus a letter from Mary Foy

www.theguardian.com

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 19d

Though maybe they have a snazzy comms campaign calling for Christmas to be delayed until further research proving the credibility of Christmas has been completed...

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Hazel Cheeseman @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 19d

Generally 'reducing harm' from tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food means people buying less. It is not remotely credible to say your business is 'part of the solution'. Turkeys do not vote for Christmas: www.reuters.com/business/hea...

www.reuters.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20d

Self-portrait with Daughter (1789) by French painter Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun #WomensArt

Painting featuring a white woman in a white robe with hair tied up embracing a female child in blue in a dark interior, both subjects looking out towards the viewer

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 20d

Agnes Kasparkova, 90-Year-Old Czech former agricultural worker who turned her small village into an art gallery by painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses. The project went on for over 13 years #WomensArt

Various photos of houses with white walls and blue painted floral designs, as well as the artist herself at work

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