Smoking is one of the main risk factors for oral and oesophageal cancers. Smokers are also at risk of other forms of cancer, including bladder, bowel, liver, lung and pancreatic cancer. Although oral cancer only accounts for around 2% of cancer cases in Britain, the occurrence of the disease is increasing year on year and […]
October marks the start of Stoptober, a nation campaign designed to encourage people to quit smoking for good. Giving up smoking can be a long, difficult process, but the benefits you’ll enjoy as a result are more than worthwhile. Smoking has a huge negative impact on almost every organ in the body and besides saving […]
A report published in the journal Addiction suggests that thousands of lives would be saved in the UK if standardised, blank cigarette packets were introduced. The report claims that replacing branded packets with standardised versions would reduce the number of people who started smoking in the first place, thus decreasing the number of smokers in […]