Tobacco - A to Z

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

• Additives in cigarettes
• Causes of cancer - Carcinogens
• Common questions about smoking and cancer
• January 2010 podcast transcript
• Our policy on smokefree legislation
• Our progress and achievements from 1902 to 1959
• Our progress and achievements in the 2000s
• Professor Richard Peto
• Smokeless tobacco and cancer
• 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 cancer risk - statistics

• Breathe competition
• Causes of cancer - Lifestyle
• Concentration of chemicals in cigarettes
• Our impact on lung cancer
• Our policy on tobacco control
• Our progress and achievements in the 1990s
• Prof Gerard Hastings
• Real life stories
• Smoking and cancer
• Smoking and cancer: Giving up
• Smoking and cancer: Second-hand smoke
• Smoking and cancer: Why do people smoke?
• Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Bill 2009
• Tobacco, smoking and cancer: the evidence

• News story: World leaders must 'take tobacco much more seriously' to achieve development goals
  12 February 2013
• News story: Smoke-free legislation reduces childhood asthma hospital admissions
  21 January 2013
• News story: Tobacco giant loses display battle
  12 December 2012
• Press Release: Tobacco industry claims on cigarette packaging are nonsense
  23 November 2012
• News story: 852 million people use tobacco products worldwide
  17 August 2012
• News story: Australia's High Court upholds ban on cigarette package branding
  15 August 2012
• Press Release: More than 75,000 Cancer Research UK supporters want to ban tobacco branding
  8 August 2012
• News story: Government extends consultation on standardising tobacco packaging
  6 July 2012
• Press Release: Smokescreen lifted on tobacco industry tactics
  31 May 2012
• News story: Low awareness of bladder cancer is 'disappointing'
  1 May 2012

• Press Release: MPs sent cigarette packs to highlight their deadly design
  12 February 2013
• News story: Lifestyle-linked diseases continue to increase globally
  13 December 2012
• Press Release: Government urged to pack it in to protect children from tobacco marketing
  30 November 2012
• News story: Motivational text messages can help smokers quit
  14 November 2012
• News story: One in 20 hospital beds used to treat smoking-related illnesses
  17 August 2012
• News story: Teen smokers 'heed health warnings' on plain cigarette packs
  9 August 2012
• Press Release: Most regret ever starting smoking
  21 July 2012
• Press Release: People ignorant of cancers caused by smoking
  30 June 2012
• Press Release: Public back an end to tobacco marketing to children
  14 May 2012
• Press Release: New report and film reveal shocking impact of tobacco packaging on children
  26 April 2012

• Policy statement - smokefree legislation (60K)

• Consultation response - smokefree mental health services in Scotland (38K)

• March 2012 podcast
• September 2011 podcast
• September 2010 podcast
• December 2009 podcast

• January 2012 podcast
• April 2011 podcast
• January 2010 podcast
• September 2009 podcast