Oral health and Scotland’s Charter for Tobacco-free Generation Reply

ASH Scotland’s Charlotte McDonough writes for us about an exciting piece of work she undertook during her time as an intern with us.

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Can we talk about reducing your risk of dementia? Reply

Dementia is big news, and for many people has replaced cancer or heart disease as a concern they take forward into later life.

It’s never too late to make a positive change Reply

In a guest post for us, David Pearce, Associate Specialist in Older Person’s Mental Health at Devon Partnership NHS Trust, writes about dementia prevention and behaviour change.

Smoking does NOT prevent dementia 2

Something really weird happens when journalists write stories about nicotine; even when they are reporting on research specifically about nicotine, somehow the end story will be about smoking.  Yet smoking lit tobacco and ingesting nicotine are  quite different.

Smoking causes, and complicates, Type 2 Diabetes Reply

ASH Scotland Policy and Research Officer, Mike Andrews, writes about the link between tobacco and Type 2 Diabetes.