What is tobacco? Tobacco is the dried leaves of plants from the Nicotiana genus that grow in many parts of the world. Around 70 species of tobacco are known, but the species grown commercially is usually N. tabacum. The main…
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The ENDS justifies the ends
You would think that a product with the potential to save a billion tobacco-related deaths this century without costing tax-payers a penny would be universally welcomed by governments and the global public health community. You’d be wrong. Startling revelations from…
Druglink article 2003 – Anti-drug vaccines: the end of high society? by Stuart Walton
Cocaine and tobacco vaccines are likely to become useful weapons in the battle against addiction. But could this breakthrough herald a future in which humans are denied their right to become intoxicated? Stuart Walton looks at the ethical problems of…
Druglink article 2012 – Ten years on by Colin Brewer
Back in 2001, Colin Brewer made some predictions in Druglink about future developments for medical treatment. So what happened? Ten years on (PDF) A decade ago, I began my article by considering vaccines that could be tailor-made to block the effects of most misused…
Druglink article 2013 – Vapor trials by Clive Bates
The booming e-cigarette trade has thrown down the gauntlet to the tobacco industry. Yet if the new, safer smokes are classed as a medicine, the battle could be over before it even begins. Vapor trials (PDF)
Druglink article 2013 – Vapour Trials Revisited by Deborah Arnott
In a response to Clive Bates’ comment piece in the last issue of Druglink, Deborah Arnott of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) argues that proper regulation of e-cigarettes is needed if they are to become truly effective and widely accepted, while not allowing…
Druglink article 2014 – Money talks by Max Daly
How successful are attempts to incentivise service users towards better health? The use of incentives to reward people for taking positive action, in the field of public health, is a relatively new and untested development in the UK. One of the first trials took place in…
Druglink article 2014 – Scary monsters by Neil McKeganey
Have health professionals started a new moral panic over e-cigarettes? Neil McKeganey thinks they have. Scary monsters (PDF)
Health – tobacco
Smoking attributable hospital admissions and deathsThere were an estimated 1,107 smoking-attributable hospital admissions per 100,000 population (38,675 admissions). This is a 36% decrease since 2008 (1,735 per 100,000). Men had a higher rate of admissions (1,224 per 100,000) than women…
Tobacco
What is tobacco? Tobacco is the dried leaves of the plant that grow in many parts of the world. The main active ingredient is nicotine. Most tobacco used in this country comes from America and is sold as cigarettes. Cigars…