Changing tobacco packs will help us to reduce the appeal and image of smoking, ensuring future generations are much less likely to develop chronic smoking related illnesses. Dr David Hambleton, Chief Executive of South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group and Chair of the Northern CCG Forum, said: As senior clinicians and commissioners of healthcare services in the North East we see at first-hand the damage that smoking does to the health of people in our region
Analyzing trade-offs between fuels management, suppression, and damages from wildfire
Particularly motivating findings for individuals considering quitting include the observed CVD benefits of quitting at any age, with those quitting by age 45 avoiding almost all of the excess risk, as well as the fact that the balance of probabilities means that a CVD death, myocardial infarction, stroke, hospitalisation with heart failure or aortic aneurysm in a smoker is more likely than not to have been caused by smoking
About 90% of all reported cases of oral cancer are reported as OSCC (National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, 2025)
Risk factors are characteristics or behaviors that increase the chances of developing a specific disease
Err on the safe side For many cannabis consumers, the smell is a pleasant, comforting feature of the plant, and one which over the years they may have gotten much less sensitive to