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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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.

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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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

🚭 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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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...

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

🚫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.

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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.

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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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

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.

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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:

#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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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.

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.

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)

🚭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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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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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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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...

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…

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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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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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

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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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

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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Use of vapes has stalled in the last year. 10% of adults vape 7% of teens vape

🚨New vaping data published today🚨

Vaping has stalled in adults and children. What does this mean?
➡️More needed to reduce use by teens.
➡️Potential underuse by adults smokers as effective quit aid.

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Our new data on vaping prevalence highlights the urgency of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. It's time to reduce their appeal to children and reclaim vaping as a quit aid.

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...

Great webinar this morning from @ashorguk.bsky.social, @oha-updates.bsky.social & @aha-uk.bsky.social as they launch their new toolkit on "Addressing the Three Biggest Killers on a Regional and Local Level".

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Each year, thousands of people in our communities are harmed by the three big killers - tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink. But what can local health leaders do to respond? Read on to find out more… 👇

🎊Today England's Smokefree laws are 18 years old 🎊

This landmark legislation has led to significant health benefits by reducing exposure to second-hand smoke. 🚭

But more needs to be done to protect everyone from tobacco smoke exposure. (1/3)