Since it became illegal to sell cigarettes to people under 18 years of age, the number of 16-17 year-olds who smoke in the UK has dropped, according to a study published in the medical journal . Up to 1October 2007, it was illegal to sell cigarettes and tobacco products to people ...
Since it became illegal to sell cigarettes to people under 18 years of age, the number of 16-17 year-olds who smoke in the UK has dropped, according to a study published in the medical journal . Up to 1October 2007, it was illegal to sell cigarettes and tobacco products to people unde...
“People tend to start smoking when they are young, many years before they reach the age at which heart attacks tend to occur,” said Dr Jill Pell, director of the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at the University of Glasgow in the UK and coauthor of the study. “Therefore, any effe...
At the time of the first follow-up, the exposure had significantly decreased to 0.3 (0.21 to 0.38; n = 37) in all venues that had introduced a smoking ban (i.e. intervention group), irrespective of venue type (p < 0.001). The type of venue was no longer an influential fac...
such as the ban on smoking in public places, the reimbursement for NRT, and the increase in the price of tobacco products, have been successful. We found that smokers who used ECs decreased their smoking significantly more than nonusers and that they had a significantly higher probability of ...
This work was supported by a Research into Ageing program grant (to IJD and JMS) and the Age UK-funded Disconnected Mind project (http://www.disconnectedmind. ed.ac.uk; to IJD, JMS and JMW), with additional funding from the UK Medical Research Council (to IJD, JMS, JMW and MEB)....
(95% UI, −2.9 to −1.8,P = 0.002), respectively, and these findings were similar across age groups. Smoking ban (P) scores were not associated with reduced prevalence among women aged 15–29 years or over 50 years. However, a 1-unit increase inPscores was associated with a ...
Age discrimination in UK healthcare will become unlawful in October SmokingA ban on discriminating against people on the grounds of their age when providing healthcare or social care will come into force in the United ... C Dyer - Bmj 被引量: 1发表: 2012年 Advertising Sin and Sickness: Th...
A study of this ban (Anger, Kvasnicka, & Siedler, 2011) found that while it did not have an immediate effect on average population, it reduced the rate of smoking within particular groups (i.e. those who often go out to bars/restaurants). Following this ban, later studies in Germany ...
The plans mirror world-first legislation implemented this year by New Zealand, which introduced a law to raise the smoking age year-by-year. The sales ban will apply only in England, however. Simon Clark, director of the lobby group Forest, which is funded by the tobacco industry, said: ...