Posts by Lorna Cudmore

ASH Scotland is urging youth groups across the country to join the charity’s World No Tobacco Day campaign raising public awareness about the tactics of the tobacco and nicotine industries in trying to attract and retain young people as consumers of their health harming products. The World Health Organization (WHO) has chosen ‘Unmasking the Appeal:…

Leading Scottish respiratory paediatricians, health charity ASH Scotland and Ayrshire & Arran’s Youth Vaping Taskforce are urging the House of Lords to approve strong measures proposed in the UK Government’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill to enable regulatory action to halt the country’s youth nicotine addiction epidemic. Ahead of the Second Reading of the Tobacco and…

ASH Scotland is offering the health charity’s thanks to the 366 cross party MPs who tonight (Wednesday 26 March 2025) voted to give a Third Reading to the UK Government’s Tobacco and Vapes Bill. Sheila Duffy, Chief Executive of ASH Scotland, said: “With tobacco continuing to be the biggest preventable killer of people in Scotland,…

ASH Scotland is today (Wednesday 26 March 2025) marking the 19th anniversary of Scotland’s UK-leading smoke-free public spaces legislation coming into force by calling for the extension of SAFE spaces (smoke-free and aerosol-free environments) to protect children’s health. The health charity’s call comes as MPs participate in the third reading of the UK Government’s Tobacco…

The 685,000 Scots who smoke are being urged to make attempts to quit tobacco on No Smoking Day to win better physical health, mental wellbeing and personal finances. The call comes from health charity ASH Scotland, Public Health Scotland (PHS) and the Scottish Government as part of the 2025 national ‘Quit and Win’ No Smoking…

A leading European tobacco control expert is encouraging elected representatives in Scotland and across the UK to dismiss tobacco industry attempts to weaken measures in the UK Government’s four-nations Tobacco and Vapes Bill which is progressing through Westminster. The call comes ahead of Lilia Olefir, Director of the Smoke Free Partnership (a European coalition of…

ASH Scotland is today (Thursday 27 February 2025) marking the 20-year anniversary of the World Heath Organization’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) coming into force by challenging the Scottish Parliament to dismiss Big Tobacco’s attempts to disrupt the development of progressive health policies. The health charity’s call comes on the back of the Scottish…

People across Scotland who have successfully given up smoking in the last couple of years are being encouraged by ASH Scotland to share their stories about how they managed to quit. Scots who have stopped using tobacco are urged to share what motivated their quit smoking attempts and if they gave up through sheer personal…

ASH Scotland is encouraging people across Scotland who smoke to aim for a tobacco-free 2025 to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. The health charity’s call is part of its campaign promoting NHS Scotland’s free, expert stop-smoking support services. Quitting smoking is one of the most impactful steps a person can take to lower their…

The number of Scots making quit smoking attempts with the help of NHS Scotland’s expert smoking cessation services rose to 30,314 in 2023/24, representing a 12.4% increase from 26,963 in 2022/23, according to an annual NHS Stop Smoking Services Scotland report published by Public Health Scotland. There was also a 5.9% rise in the numbers…