News/press release archive 

January 2010

 Smokers with cancer could quit and double chances of survival

• A study led by UKCTCS staff at the University of Birmingham has shown people with lung cancer can live longer if they quit smoking after being diagnosed with the disease.

October 2009

• SRNT Europe 2010 annual meeting
  Where: Bath, UK
  When: 6-9 September 2010
• MPs vote to put tobacco out of sight and out of reach - read report on Action on Smoking and Health's website
  ASH thanks UKCTCS for its help in putting tobacco out of sight
• Irish tobacco ban provides encouraging results for UK  (external website).  The results of a survey to examine how people are responding to the display ban in Ireland shows the ban is having an effect.

August 2009

• Pioneer for tobacco product and cessation research and inspiration for UKCTCS dies at 77, read Michael Russell's obituary in The Guardian 
• NHS smoking cessation therapies are effective - Prof.Linda Bauld's recent publication in the British Medical Journal. 

July 2009

• UKCTCS First Annual report 2008-09
• The UK Centre for Tobacco Control Studies celebrates its first birthday!

June 2009

• UKCTCS researcher contributes to report on illicit tobacco
  “Developing world faces black market cigarette plague”
  Observer, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/28/black-market-cigarette-plague
• Dr Linda Bauld advocates the benefits of stop smoking support in the workplace - read Daily mail news report

April 2009

• A Health Bill to be reviewed by House of Lords UKCTCS is one of approximately a hundred organisations and groups in the UK that are urging the House of Lords to endorse a ban on tobacco displays in retail outlets. The Lords are reviewing a draft Health Bill which includes proposals to end tobacco displays in shops, supermarkets and other retail outlets. ASH released the following press release on 6th May 09 - http://www.ash.org.uk/ash_uh2mkijx.htm
  The Bill has been through the House of Lords and has its second reading in the Commons on 8 June 2009.

March 2009

• NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training A consortium, led by University College London, one of the UKCTCS collaborating centres, have been awarded a £3 million contract to establish and run the NHS Centre for Smoking Cessation and Training from 2009 - 2012. Dr Andy McEwen  from University College London will lead the development.

February 2009

• UKCTCS researchers aim to reduce smoking in a Nottingham community  (external website)

  A study funded by Nottingham City Primary care Trust aims to reduce smoking in the Aspley area of Nottingham.