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Hazel Cheeseman

@hazelcheeseman.bsky.social

Chief Executive at UK public health charity Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) www.ash.org.uk

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Hazel Cheeseman@hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 3w ago

What is striking to me is that Rolling Stone has had a long commercial relationship with PMI. www.rollingstone.com/author/prese... Perhaps the editorial choice to have this cover picture is unrelated but it sure points to a culture of being comfortable with big tobacco

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 3w ago

I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.

Hazel Cheeseman@hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 3w ago

What is striking to me is that Rolling Stone has had a long commercial relationship with PMI. www.rollingstone.com/author/prese... Perhaps the editorial choice to have this cover picture is unrelated but it sure points to a culture of being comfortable with big tobacco

Olivia Hill@machineiv.bsky.social · 3w ago

I genuinely hate the push to make smoking a thing again. I have watched so many drawn out, ugly, painful deaths from smoking. It makes everything disgusting. It enslaves us to the worst kinds of corporations. There’s ZERO positive here.

Sarah Jackson@drsarahejackson.bsky.social · 3w ago

The UK’s Tobacco and Vapes Act puts the end of smoking within reach, but the job is not done New comment in Lancet Regional Health Europe with @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social and @jamiebrown.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The UK’s Tobacco and Vapes Act puts the end of smoking within reach, but the job is not done

The UK’s Tobacco and Vapes Act marks a defining moment in tobacco control. Its smokefree generation policy—prohibiting the sale of all tobacco products to anyone born on or after 1 January 2009—repres...

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Hazel Cheeseman@hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · last mo.

The public are many times more likely to think vaping is as harmful as smoking than they are to think it is less harmful. But it is less harmful. Not harmless, it still needs regulation, we still don't want kids to vape. But if you smoke and you switch that is better than continuing to smoke.

Action on Smoking Health (UK)@ashorguk.bsky.social · last mo.

📉New ASH data has shown that 54% of UK adults & 52% of people who smoke wrongly believe vaping is as harmful or more harmful than smoking. As ASH CE @hazelcheeseman.bsky.social says, there are concerns that these misperceptions may prevent people from using vapes to quit smoking. 👇

Simon Evans@drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 2mo ago

FACTCHECK: A few small details that may be relevant… * EDF is bidding into the next windfarm auction (AR8) * EDF does not want that auction to be stopped * EDF plans to expand its own UK wind/solar capacity from 2-10GW by 2035

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Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 2mo ago

Lung cancer deaths trace the rise and fall of smoking— Lung cancer kills more than two million people every year, making it the most fatal cancer globally. While a number of factors increase the risk, the 20th century brought one like no other: smoking.

Small multiple line charts of reported male deaths from trachea, bronchus, and lung cancers per 100,000 men for six countries from 1950 to 2023, where each country shows a rise to a mid-to-late 20th-century peak followed by a decline to 2023, with the United Kingdom and Netherlands peaking highest and Japan and France showing later, lower peaks. Source: WHO Mortality Database (2025). License: CC BY.
Stephen Frost@sfrost.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gave the approach mentioned in the article a go this morning in a Bristol shopping centre. Had conversations with people with very different perspectives & backgrounds. Not seeking to persuade just listen & understand. Moving how ppl share their life stories to some random guy from a local charity!

Picture of a flip chart paper covered in voting dots against different questions.
George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3mo ago

There is a way out of our political spiral, and it is thrilling and inspiring. We could have a very different country. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Mary Kelly Foy MP@marykfoymp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👑 Royal Assent When you work for years on a topic, see it initially stall in the House, then see it criticised by a small but vociferous bunch of individuals - I think people asked why I didn’t just give up. What’s the big deal about phasing out smoking in the UK? But I don’t give up easily! More👇🏼

Mary’s graphic produced by ASH which states: I am so pleased that the Tobacco and Vapes Act is now law, setting us on a path to a smokefree future. Smoking is responsible for half the healthy life expectancy between the richest and poorest in this country and tackling smoking is one of the most effective ways to reduce health inequalities. Tackling smoking is a mission that all political parties share, it is not a partisan issue. I've seen the positive impact that action can have in my constituency of Country Durham where smoker rates have almost halved in the last ten years. We are so close to the finish line now but this Act does not mean it is job done'. Mary Kelly Foy MP Labour MP and Co-Chair of the APPG on Smoking and HealthI have a huge passion for improving public health, particularly in areas where we see vast health inequalities - areas like the North East where I'm proudly from. We see already stretched NHS services struggle to cope under the additional pressure of avoidable smoking-related illness, and our children and young people falling into the clutches of an industry that does nothing but exploit their vulnerability in exchange for huge profits. Major thanks go to colleagues at ASH and Fresh for their unwavering commitment to getting this work done, and to my colleagues of the Smoking and Health APPG, which I co-chair. We are mindful there are still 5.3 million smokers across the UK who may wish to get support to quit, or they may wish to continue and that's absolutely their choice - no one of legal age is being forced to give up their cigs, but if you'd like help to be smokefree there are brilliant organisations that can help. Today I'm celebrating this achievement and the UK being one more step toward a smokefree future. It is important that this work is not undone and I'll be fighting to protect it at every turn. After all, isn't it great to feel healthy? Have a read
Action on Smoking Health (UK)@ashorguk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Thank you to the APPG on Smoking & Health for their role in ensuring the Tobacco & Vapes Act became law🚭 Many APPG members have worked for decades to end smoking. Tobacco control is not a partisan issue & the APPG proves that. Parliamentarians across the Houses, working together with a shared aim.

Action on Smoking Health (UK)@ashorguk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Tobacco and Vapes Act was first introduced under former PM Rishi Sunak’s Government. As the Tobacco and Vapes Act achieves royal assent, the Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP celebrates the new law and points to the cross-party support for the legislation.

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Hazel Cheeseman@hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This is the gift of the generational sales ban. A longer future with our loved ones. We will look back on today as the law passes as a watershed moment. The UK has moved from being a country that was gradually reducing smoking to one that will, sooner or later, end smoking.

David Buck@davidjbuck.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Future generations will end up thanking this one for this, if perhaps for little else. A huge endeavour over time by many. My parents died of smoking-related disease, only managing to stop smoking far too late for them, addicted to the product that helped speed their demise.

Hazel Cheeseman@hazelcheeseman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My thoughts on former PM Boris Johnson appearing on BAT's podcast. Bottom line if Mr Johnson thinks this doesn't matter he is wrong. BAT is part of a global industry killing millions and actively involved in lobbying against regulations around the world: www.linkedin.com/posts/hazel-...

It’s deeply disappointing to see former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson appear on a podcast linked to British American Tobacco. I won’t link to it here as it doesn’t need any (more) traffic. Most… |...

It’s deeply disappointing to see former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson appear on a podcast linked to British American Tobacco. I won’t link to it here as it doesn’t need any (more) traffic. Most pe...

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