| 1 |  | | Health risks of smoking
Along with the pleasures of smoking there are real risks of serious diseases such as lung cancer, respiratory disease and heart disease, and for many people, smoking is difficult to quit. |
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| 2 | | | How can you justify selling a product that is harmful to people’s health?
Cigarettes are a lawful consumer product enjoyed by about one billion adults world wide. We believe in individual choice and support the right of adults, ... |
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| 3 | | | Is snus totally harmless?
No tobacco product is totally harmless. As snus use does not involve the inhalation of smoke, studies suggest no increase in risk for two of the major ... |
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| 4 | | | Are you really committed to preventing youth smoking or just trying to improve your image?
We strongly believe that tobacco products should only be used by adult consumers who are aware of the associated health risks. We do not want children ... |
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| 5 | | | Do you pay for medical research into smoking and health?
Along with the rest of the industry, we have contributed to the published science by funding worthwhile research by independent scientists into smoking ... |
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| 6 | | | Have you suppressed research into smoking and health?
No. We have set up a document depository at Guildford in England, holding around a million company documents dating back to 1952, collected in response ... |
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| 7 | | | Local companies’ smoking and health information
We asked our companies to report on whether and how they provided smoking and health information to consumers in 2007. |
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| 8 | | | UK Health Committee inquiry 1999-2000
When the UK House of Commons Health Select Committee chose to examine the tobacco industry and the health risks of smoking, we co-operated fully. We volunteered comprehensive historic and current information and made a series of constructive proposals for co-operation on tobacco issues for governments, public health bodies and tobacco companies, called ‘Partnership for Change’. |
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| 9 | | | 09 December - Our response to proposed UK legislation on tobacco display bans
The Department of Health said today that it intends to remove cigarette displays from shops and restrict access to cigarette vending machines. |
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| 10 | | | Regulation and bans
The EU banned sales of most smokeless tobacco, including snus, in 1992, saying it could appeal to people too young to be sold tobacco legally and posed ... |
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