ASH Scotland is preparing to launch a new campaign highlighting how not smoking leaves young adults happier, better off and achieving more. Our Development Lead Emma Papakyriakou explains why….. More…

ASH Scotland is preparing to launch a new campaign highlighting how not smoking leaves young adults happier, better off and achieving more. Our Development Lead Emma Papakyriakou explains why….. More…
Earlier this week, the Herald featured this piece by our Chief Executive, Sheila Duffy, focusing on this year’s World No Tobacco Day. See more about how tobacco is a threat to development, below: More…
In this blog, Policy & Research Officer Mike Andrews reflects on the media coverage of recent poverty reports, and conversations around the office about them.
2017 has kicked off with a couple of very high profile reports and academic pieces which have demonstrated, pretty bluntly, the awful effects that poverty is having at both the start and end of people’s lives. It has to be said, though, that sometimes you have to dig under the headlines to really see what writers are saying. More…
I was interested to read in the papers over the festive season that some researchers have reviewed Scotland’s recent Public Health Supplement and found that while the “supplement” part of the deal delivered a substantive and reliable income, the “public health” element of the scheme was rather lacking. More…
In a post originally appearing on the https://www.commonspace.scot/ site we consider what achieving a tobacco-free society actually means in practice. Largely it means closing the inequality gap.
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We already know that people who are strained financially are more likely to smoke, and that it takes money out of their pockets and their communities. More…
ASH Scotland Policy and Communications Officer Ruaraidh Dobson blogs for us about what smoking costs people that want to quit. More…
German tobacco control advocate and colleague Sonja von Eichborn, of Unfairtobacco, Berlin, writes for us about links between tobacco, poverty and hunger in a global sense. More…
It is pleasing to see Communities Secretary Angela Constance pledging to get cash to the poorest Scots. One of the most efficient and effective means of doing so is to reduce the high smoking rates amongst our poorest communities. More…
ASH Scotland’s Inequalities Development Lead Tracey Rogers looks at raising the issue of smoking in discussions around finances and highlights new work showing how this can be done. More…