Along with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde and NHS Tayside, NHS Lanarkshire is recruiting smokers and ex-smokers for the potentially life-saving research, spearheaded by the University of Dundee, University of Glasgow and University of Nottingham. The research will help to decide if the test could be used for a lung cancer screening programme in Scotland [...]
A new study by researchers at the University of Glasgow has investigated the views of under-18s to e-cigarettes for the first time and found they support strict regulation. The study, conducted by Dr Shona Hilton and Dr Heide Weishaar of the MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, University of Glasgow, and Dr Filippo Trevisan [...]
Support from a partner after the quit date and refraining from nagging are important factors in successfully stopping smoking, according to a researcher at the University of Aberdeen. Dr Gertraud Stadler tracked the behaviour of 100 couples with one smoker and one non-smoker while working with Dr Urte Scholz at the University of Zuerich. The [...]
The number of 15-year-olds who smoke regularly has dropped by more than two thirds in the last decade, new statistics show. In 1996, 29 per cent of 15-year-olds in Scotland smoked regularly, but in 2013 that figure had dropped to nine per cent. For 13-year-olds there was a drop from eight per cent to two [...]
