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Lucy Briers – My father Richard’s life was cut short by tobacco
Over a year ago – on February 17th 2013 – my wonderful father died from emphysema, a lung disease which had diminished him from a sprightly 74 year old, who was still working, to a 79 year old who...
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Why is economic inequality linked to 19,000 cancer deaths a year?
For several years now, the economy has barely been far from the news headlines. And recently there’s been a growing realisation that the gap between the richest and poorest in society played an...
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No wonder the public doesn’t trust the tobacco industry
Three years ago, the Department of Health commissioned an in-depth review of the evidence for and against standardised cigarette packaging. Known as the ‘Stirling Review’, it was initially built from...
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Standard packs – nearly but not quite there
So today the government has taken another significant step towards bringing in plain, standardised tobacco packs. They have finally, after a perplexing delay, published what’s known as draft...
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The Mail’s coverage of our pancreatic cancer story is a disservice to patients
Earlier this week, we released new stats about how pancreatic cancer – one of the most devastating and hard to treat forms of the disease – is linked to two lifestyle factors: smoking and obesity. The...
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Our new report – gazing into a tobacco-free future
With your support, we’ve been campaigning hard to persuade the government to bring in plain, standardised packaging for tobacco products. So far we’ve seen encouraging signs that this will happen. But...
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Guest post: Smoking in people with mental health issues
We recently spotted an interesting-looking paper on smoking and mental health, so we asked Suzi Gage – an expert in addiction and mental health who writes for Guardian’s Science Blog – to have a look....
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A £6 million commitment to prevent more cancers
For every cancer prevented, that’s one person who’s saved from the life-changing challenges of facing the disease. In fact, more than 4 in 10 cases of cancer are linked to our lifestyles, and to and...
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The big issues affecting lung cancer worldwide
Lung cancer is the biggest cancer killer – both here in the UK and globally. And although the UK has seen signs of improvement – lung cancer rates in men have dropped by 50 per cent in the last four...
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Lung cancer evolution – a journey through space and time
Not so long ago, the top floor of Cancer Research UK’s London Research Institute housed a library, where the Institute’s 300-odd researchers could look back over decades of archived cancer research,...
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It’s lung cancer awareness month
November marks lung cancer awareness month, an important time to get people talking about the world’s biggest cancer killer. A closer look at the ever-changing patterns of smoking rates in the UK shows...
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The Enemy Within – 50 years of fighting cancer
Cancer has always been with us, affecting our species for many thousands of years. For most of that time there was little we could do in the face of such a powerful adversary, and it wasn’t until the...
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600,000 preventable cancers – the size of the healthy living prize
Today we released new data highlighting what a real difference collective action on public health could make. Lifestyle factors like smoking, too much unhealthy food, being overweight, alcohol, UV...
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Cancer ‘mainly bad luck’? An unfortunate and distracting headline
What causes cancer? It’s a simple question to ask, and – in so many ways – one of the hardest to answer. And last week, as 2015 slowly got into gear and many of us put the finishing touches to our new...
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Does oxygen cause lung cancer? I wouldn’t hold your breath
What causes cancer – and what can be done to prevent it – is one of the biggest questions in research – and although we’ve come a long way to answering it, there’s always more to learn. So when we see...
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The gap between rich and poor: yet more misleading information from the...
January is traditionally a time to focus on our health, and on the steps we can take to improve it. But what about the health of the nation overall? One of the biggest factors affecting the UK’s health...
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Standard packs: another step closer to a giant leap for public health
Nearly four years ago we said, on this very blog, how pleased we were that measures to introduce plain, standardised tobacco packaging were ‘on the table’. Since then we have peppered our blog with 31...
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Getting healthy: Is two better than one?
“I get by with a little help from my friends” goes the famous Beatles song. Let’s be honest, the world would be a pretty daunting place if you had to face all life’s challenges by yourself. So it...
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Why are cancer rates increasing?
Our new figures today demonstrate the impact of cancer on society with more accuracy. Half of us will hear the words “you have cancer” at some point in our lives. That’s a stark figure. And it’s a...
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A marathon not swings and roundabouts: the evidence on e-cigarettes
Although they were almost unheard of a few years ago, there are now an estimated 2.1 million e-cigarette users – or vapers – in the UK. But despite their widespread use, these devices have arrived so...
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