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If they perceive further judgment around their smoking, they may become disengaged from care or minimize their nicotine use when speaking with healthcare providers

The upshot will be more smoking-related disease and death

(Accessed February 2024)

One wonders when would their thought process & practice reach the many influential but putrid political minds in the West & the North of the country?

It may well have been that tobacco use was agreed upon as an innocent social habit among these ministers

Changing tobacco packs will help us to reduce the appeal and image of smoking, ensuring future generations are much less likely to develop chronic smoking related illnesses. Dr David Hambleton, Chief Executive of South Tyneside Clinical Commissioning Group and Chair of the Northern CCG Forum, said: As senior clinicians and commissioners of healthcare services in the North East we see at first-hand the damage that smoking does to the health of people in our region