Advice for youth organisations on how to respond to electronic cigarettes 2

While media debates on vaping and electronic cigarettes continue to produce more heat than light, ASH Scotland is working with leading youth organisations (Youthlink, Youth Scotland, Young Scot and Fast Forward) and with WLDAS to circulate some simple, practical guidance

Electronic cigarettes – getting back to basics 1

There are now various detailed and finely nuanced position statements on e-cigarettes – including a few from ASH Scotland.  As an evidence-based organisation we feel it is important to collate and review what we know, but necessarily these considerations have so many ifs, buts and maybes that we risk leaving people none the wiser.

Electronic cigarettes consultation – our views 16

The Scottish Government is planning a new Public Health Bill that will include measures to reduce the attractiveness and availability of tobacco and electronic cigarettes.

The Bill will be informed by responses to the Consultation on Electronic Cigarettes and Strengthening Tobacco Control, which ended on 2 January.

Like many others in the health community, we’ve made our submission to the consultation, outlining our views on a list of potential measures to help Scotland’s goal of achieving a tobacco-free generation by 2034.

How we deal with the growing and changing landscape of electronic cigarette use is one of the key issues.

Looking at Voke novel nicotine delivery device 1

By now we are all aware of electronic cigarettes.

They have developed from an original design that looks like a traditional cigarette to a new generation of devices that resemble anything from a tin whistle to Doctor Who’s sonic screwdriver.

Now another new-look nicotine delivery device is heading our way – and this one is licensed as a medicine.

Electronic cigarette experimentation among teenagers Reply

There’s no doubt that the growth in popularity of electronic cigarettes is causing a stir.

ASH Scotland does not take a simplistic view either “for” or “against” electronic cigarettes. Instead our interest is in developing the conditions that will maximise the potential positive health impacts of e-cigarettes and other new nicotine delivery devices while minimising the risks they may pose.

So what does the Scottish public think about tobacco? Reply

Every year we team up with our ASH colleagues in the rest of Britain to carry out a survey on people’s attitude to all things tobacco.

The Scottish results produce a host of interesting information about a range of topics.

Recently, figures from our YouGov survey have hit the headlines.

E-cigarettes versus Nicotine patches 1

A study from New Zealand (full study text pdf, news report) was published earlier today in the high profile medical journal Lancet which compared the effectiveness of electronic cigarettes to nicotine patches for quitting smoking. It found e-cigarettes ‘…with or without nicotine, were modestly effective at helping smokers to quit, with similar achievement of abstinence as with nicotine patches.’ Let’s take a look at it and see if we can put the results in context…

Let’s ensure ads don’t glamourise e-cigs 6

It hasn’t been welcomed by everyone, but the new proposal to regulate e-cigarettes seems about the best available response to a thorny problem.
ASH Scotland therefore joins the majority of the public health community in believing the decision by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency to licence e-cigarettes is a sensible and welcome move.

The week’s news unpacked Reply

This week’s tobacco news included stories about weight gain, life insurance and bacon butties…..

Wednesday the 13^th of March was the 30^th anniversary of No Smoking Day. Writing in the