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Category Archives: Health conditions

May 3, 2018

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

by Mike • Health conditions, Scotland's Charter for a Tobacco-free Generation

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

May 31, 2017

Can we talk about reducing your risk of dementia? Reply

by Mike • Health conditions, Stop-smoking

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

April 21, 2017

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

by Mike • Health conditions

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. More…

October 4, 2016

Smoking does NOT prevent dementia 2

by abrisbane • Health conditions, Research

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. More…

July 29, 2016

Smoking causes, and complicates, Type 2 Diabetes Reply

by Mike • Health conditions, Research

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

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