5 Reasons to Celebrate No Smoking Day Reply

No Smoking Day is just around the corner on Tuesday 8 March. But why should your organisation take up the baton to promote it? ASH Scotland Chief Executive, Sheila Duffy, tells us more:

Smoking must be in the mix on poverty question Reply

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.

ASH Scotland’s winning plan for a win, win, win, win, win situation Reply

The Child Poverty Strategy sets out what the Scottish Government plans to do to reduce the levels of child poverty in Scotland, and so ensure that as few children as possible experience any type of socio-economic disadvantage. There are two very distinctive aims within the strategy:

• to reduce the levels of child poverty by reducing income poverty and material deprivation
• to improve children’s wellbeing and life chance – with the ultimate aim being to break inter-generational cycles of poverty, inequality and deprivation.

What would a tobacco-free Scotland look like? Reply

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.

The cost of smoking in 2016 2

ASH Scotland Policy and Communications Officer Ruaraidh Dobson blogs for us about what smoking costs people that want to quit.

Tobacco, poverty and hunger Reply

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.

Getting cash to the poorest Scots Reply

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.

It’s about money and it’s about lives – stopping smoking helps income maximisation Reply

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.

What is the cost of a cigarette? Reply

There are (at least) two ways to consider the cost of a cigarette. In health terms the answer is straightforward – 11 minutes. That’s the average amount of life lost from smoking one cigarette.

Healthy and wealthy – the whys Reply

The message that stopping smoking is a great way to save money is getting more attention in public health circles, and for good reason. The links between income and health inequalities are clear but this blog sets out to calculate just how much can be gained by taking the two together.