Smoking - A to Z

Smoking is a sub-category of Causes of cancer, Lifestyle and Tobacco

• Additives in cigarettes
• Breathe competition
• Concentration of chemicals in cigarettes
• Lesson plan - Design your own health campaign
• Lung cancer risk factors
• Oesophageal cancer risk factors
• Our policy on smokefree legislation
• Pancreatic cancer risk factors
• Prof Gerard Hastings
• Professor Richard Peto
• Smokeless tobacco and cancer
• Smoking and cancer
• Smoking and cancer: Giving up
• Smoking and cancer: Second-hand smoke
• Smoking and cancer: Why do people smoke?
• Stomach cancer risk factors
• Tobacco and cancer risk - statistics

• Bladder cancer risk factors
• Common questions about smoking and cancer
• Kidney cancer risk factors
• Lung cancer Key Facts
• Lung cancer statistics
• Oral cancer risk factors
• Our policy on tobacco control
• Prof David Phillips
• Prof Robert West
• Real life stories
• Smoking
• Smoking and cancer: Children and smoking
• Smoking and cancer: Reasons to quit
• Smoking and cancer: What's in a cigarette?
• Source of the chemicals in cigarettes
• Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Bill 2009
• Tobacco, smoking and cancer: the evidence

• News story: Motivational text messages can help smokers quit
  14 November 2012
• News story: 852 million people use tobacco products worldwide
  17 August 2012
• News story: Teen smokers 'heed health warnings' on plain cigarette packs
  9 August 2012
• Press Release: Smokescreen lifted on tobacco industry tactics
  31 May 2012
• News story: Public consultation on plain packaging of cigarettes launched
  16 April 2012
• News story: 'One hundred million years of UK life' to be lost to smoking
  6 March 2012
• News story: Public smoking bans 'drive down home smoking'
  14 February 2012
• News story: New genetic fault linked to lung cancer in non-smokers
  22 December 2011
• News story: Tobacco-ad ban 'supported by public'
  4 November 2011
• News story: Nicotine substitute cytisine effective at helping smokers to quit
  30 September 2011

• Press Release: Smokers leave a history of their addiction in DNA
  6 November 2012
• News story: One in 20 hospital beds used to treat smoking-related illnesses
  17 August 2012
• News story: Government extends consultation on standardising tobacco packaging
  6 July 2012
• News story: Low awareness of bladder cancer is 'disappointing'
  1 May 2012
• News story: Shisha pipes 'as dangerous as cigarettes'
  14 March 2012
• News story: Charities slam tobacco packaging report
  20 February 2012
• News story: Tobacco firms withdraw legal challenge to display ban
  4 January 2012
• News story: Australian Senate passes cigarette pack reform
  14 November 2011
• News story: 'Smokefree generation' lobbies parents
  1 November 2011
• News story: Tobacco control policies 'bring healthcare savings'
  29 September 2011

• Smoke is poison - formaldehyde print advert full (114K)
• Policy statement - smokefree legislation (60K)
• Smoke is poison - hydrogen cyanide print advert full (96K)

• Smoke is poison - chemical cocktail print advert full (158K)
• Smoke is poison - benzene print advert full (113K)

• September 2010 podcast

• December 2009 podcast