The UK can lead the world on public health — but it must learn from New Zealand’s mistakes
On my return from a recent trip to New Zealand, meeting with public health officials, cancer charities, patients and cancer experts, I find myself sitting at the airport with a sense of conflict. My flight will take me back to the UK, where world-leading age of sale legislation has just overcome its first parliamentary hurdle […]
Bob Blackman: ‘Sunak should make delivering a smokefree 2030 his public health legacy’
As a dyed in the wool Conservative I believe in freedom of choice, but smoking is not a matter of free choice. The only free choice is whether to smoke that first cigarette. Two thirds of those trying just one cigarette, usually while they are still children, go on to become daily smokers, and daily […]
