Wales has spoken with a resounding YES vote for a smokefree future🚭 The legislative consent motion for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill passed yesterday, marking a huge step towards reducing tobacco harm and creating a healthier future for Wales🎉 @ashwalescymru.bsky.social www.gov.wales/senedd-backs...

'Cigar mile' highlights a clear loophole in tobacco policy. Closing these gaps, via the Tobacco & Vapes Bill, is essential to protect health and deliver a Smokefree future. New blog by @helenduffyash.bsky.social 👇 ash.org.uk/media-centre...

ASH is happy to be in Cardiff today with local school children calling on members to vote for a healthier future for Wales!

"Cigars have emerged as an unlikely focal point in debates as the bill passes through the House of Lords." ASH Public Affairs Lead, @helenduffyash.bsky.social spoke to the Times about how all tobacco is harmful & how cigar lounges expose staff to second-hand smoke. www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcar...

“‘Let's make it so that the only place future generations will find a cigarette is in the history books.” 👏 ASH was delighted to welcome Baroness Merron to our AGM yesterday. Her vision for a smoke-free future is inspiring and one we’re determined to achieve together.

Huge congratulations to former Chief Executive of ASH Deborah Arnott for winning the @btsrespiratory.bsky.social President's Medal last night. As BTS said, Deborah has worked tirelessly for more than twenty years to reduce the harm caused by tobacco, and this award is very well deserved!

While there's some welcome measures in the budget, it's also a missed opportunity for further action that would have benefited both health and public finances. ASH CE @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social responds to the Budget.

This week ASH CE @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social is in Geneva for the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Conference of the Parties #FCTCCOP11 where the global health community comes together to progress tobacco control.

Off we go! #FCTCCOP11 plenary opens for 11th COP of the global tobacco treaty. Excited about what can be achieved in the next week

@hazelcheeseman.bsky.social , Chief Executive of @ashorguk.bsky.social shared more on the Legislative Timetable for the Tobacco and Vapes Bill, illicit Tobacco - debunking misinformation, a call for evidence to inform policy responses and priority areas for consultation. #LTA3years

New official Gov data on smoking out this morning for 2024. It's good news - smoking rates continue to fall. Vaping is now more common than smoking, likely part of the reason for the continue drops.

ASH CE @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social said: "Govt needs to accelerate progress, invest in what works, and support communities where smoking rates remain high. We need a new strategy, alongside the Tobacco & Vapes Bill, with clear targets and renewed ambition." ash.org.uk/media-centre...

New official Gov data on smoking out this morning for 2024. It's good news - smoking rates continue to fall. Vaping is now more common than smoking, likely part of the reason for the continue drops.

"Let’s be clear about who benefits from the spin that regulating tobacco is bad for retailers: not the corner shop or the supermarket, but the multinational tobacco manufacturers" Read @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social 's article explaining why Big Tobacco's decline is retail's opportunity🚭🛒👇

Does seem heartbreaking that @cpaguk.bsky.social should be marking 60 years. I’m sure they won’t mind my hoping they don’t mark 60 more

Retailers are far too often being used as a shield for tobacco company arguments. Their interests are not aligned with the tobacco industry

Members of @lhgp.bsky.social, including Director Anna Gilmore, have have signed a letter expressing their support for the Tobacco & Vapes Bill as peers met yesterday for the first day of Committee stage in the Lords. 👇 Listen to @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social, head of @ash.org

📻Listen to @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social on LBC News as she discusses the letter signed by over 1,200 health experts urging the swift passage of the Tobacco & Vapes Bill. This Bill is vital to protect the health of future generations - we can’t afford further delay!

Starting the week with a bang. Delighted the Tobacco and Vapes Bill back in Parliament today and great to be talking about why it’s so important

Good lord police you're looking for someone who robbed an art museum the guy is RIGHT THERE

You have to love both the fact that this exists and that someone took the time to find it.

Dr Chris on “filters”. Time to get rid of this highly successful tobacco industry marketing tool

My son loves looking at the ads on the tube 🚇 always spotting his favourite musicals 🎶 He saw this one and went "ooh sweets" 🍬 Trading standards are right: shorturl.at/I6yN1 We urgently need regulation for nicotine pouches to stop them being sold and marketed to children

Dr Chris Van Tulleken shares what most people don’t know about cigarette filters! 🌍🚭

ASH CE @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social says: “Filters are a marketing con to keep people smoking, protecting tobacco industry profits. This incredibly successful deception means the majority of people are unaware filters have no health benefits." 👇

🚭 Experts urge a UK ban on cigarette filters, highlighting evidence from ASH’s surveys showing how filters mislead smokers, provide no health benefits and harm the environment. Read more 👉 doi.org/10.1111/add....

New editorial in @addictionjournal.bsky.social highlights opportunity to ban cigarette filters in the interests of public health and the environment. Watch this explainer video: youtu.be/DmTDKb-1EZY | DOI: 10.1111/add.70200 @katieeast.bsky.social @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social @ashorguk.bsky.social

www.adph.org.uk/2025/10/alco... Alcohol licensing reforms From a public health point of view, it's... well a little disappointing... Its almost as if there wasn't some concern about high and rising alcohol harm and it's impact on families, UKPLC and the NHS

I was poorer when I was younger, but the price of alcohol definitely deterred me from drinking then in a way it doesn't now. Just looked it up and the tax has fallen in real terms, which will be part of the reason drink is now cheaper.

Fun(ish) fact King Charles I issued the first licences for selling tobacco. We come full circle under King Charles III - though this time purpose is to improve public health rather than raise revenue to get one over on an unruly parliament (or at least that's what it says in the call for evidence)

PMI paid the Spectator for this on 'cancel culture' in science. Big Tobacco has spent 50+ years funding 'science' that downplays health impact of smoking purely for commercial interests. That kind of track record should get you cancelled www.spectator.co.uk/podcast/defe...

We are appalled that public service broadcaster the BBC continues to provide a platform for tobacco industry giant, British American Tobacco, to lobby against the Tobacco & Vapes Bill. So we fixed the headline for them...

Govt launches call for evidence to shape new regulations on key aspects of the Tobacco and Vapes Bill. www.independent.co.uk/news/busines...

Who are these psychopaths with 1 tab open?

Fewer young Europeans are drinking alcohol in part due to health concerns but the CEO of Diagio isn't buying it. Definitely not that people feel better when they don't consume your product... www.reuters.com/business/eur...

A cigarette 'filter' does not filter to make smoking less harmful. It was an incredible tobacco industry lie to keep people smoking when the evidence of how lethal it was started to emerge, a lie that has endured into the 21st C. Any suggestions for a more accurate word to describe them?

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

So exhausting..

Great article from @iansample.bsky.social. Starts with info on the significant harms to oral health from smoking and moves on to give nuanced assessment of the more limited evidence on vaping. If all coverage was like this then a majority of Brits would not think that vaping was as bad as smoking.

Here's the latest in our series on "adult gaming centres", high street 24hr slot machine shops. Today shop workers and gamblers tell us stories of human misery. The govt is giving councils more power to stop "unwanted" shops. Is it enough? 🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Lets circulate some well researched content on a day when complete nonsense is being thrown around

What a world. As if you don't have enough to be stressed about when your pregnant without having to navigate this nonsense.

I realise this is mostly an important message about climate change but it's nice to see the visible confirmation of how wet my socks were during three years at a Welsh university

Great to see this study out showing the scope for vape regulation that does not damage the likelihood of adult smokers switching to vaping. If Parliament can get on and pass the Tobacco and Vapes Bill then measures like this can be implemented: www.itv.com/news/2025-09...

Public health shouldn’t be centred around individual behaviour change. It should be focused on changing the wider commercial, social, environmental & ultimately political determinants of health. Behaviour change will naturally come when healthy behaviours are facilitated by those structural changes.

Strange choice at any time, particularly ahead of budget where further taxes on industry are on the table. Let’s hope she intends to also meet those making the case on the health / mental health side eg @willprochaska.bsky.social

Strange choice at any time, particularly ahead of budget where further taxes on industry are on the table. Let’s hope she intends to also meet those making the case on the health / mental health side eg @willprochaska.bsky.social

The APPG on Smoking & Health’s Co-Chair @marykfoymp.bsky.social wrote to the Guardian 📰 making the case for a polluter pays levy on tobacco companies 🚭. £700m per year direct from industry (not taxpayers!) to fund smoking cessation services. What’s not to like! 🙌 🔗 Read here: shorturl.at/O8bBv

Generally 'reducing harm' from tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food means people buying less. It is not remotely credible to say your business is 'part of the solution'. Turkeys do not vote for Christmas: www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Self-portrait with Daughter (1789) by French painter Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun #WomensArt