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The government has today published its White Paper on public health in Britain, including the blueprint of a smoking ban, which would outlaw smoking in up to 90 per cent of the UK’s pubs, cafés and restaurants by 2008.
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16 Nov 2004
German consumer affairs minister Horst Seehofer has reportedly announced that draft legislation is being prepared to partially ban smoking in public places across the country from as early as 2007.
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26 Jul 2006
A Scottish Executive commissioned study to evaluate the beneficial effects of the smoking ban has found a 17 per cent fall in hospital admissions for heart attacks in the first year.
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11 Sep 2007
A clash between cabinet ministers has forced the health secretary to an embarrassing u-turn on the UK smoking ban proposals.
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26 Oct 2005
Excess body fat and obesity are likely to have contributed to more deaths in England and
Scotland than
smoking since 2014, according to new research from the Institute of Health and Wellbeing at
the University of Glasgow.
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19 Feb 2021
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is calling for the UK smoking ban to be extended to cover all public parks, play areas and outdoor swimming pools.
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24 Mar 2010
SOLL Leisure is running a campaign to help people quit smoking and get fit to coincide with the smoking ban which came into force in England on 1 July.
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04 Jul 2007
Health secretary Patricia Hewitt has admitted it will only be a matter of time before a complete smoking ban will introduced in England.
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28 Nov 2005
Barnsley Premier Leisure is offering a month's free membership to smokers who are looking to quit.
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08 Sep 2008
The number of emergency hospital admissions for heart attacks has fallen 2.4 per cent since the introduction of the smokefree legislation in England, according to a new report.
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16 Jun 2010
Nine out of ten businesses say that the implementation of the smoking ban has been successful.
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02 Nov 2007
NHS patients in Devon are to be required to undergo weight management
courses before they are eligible to receive routine surgical procedures.
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04 Dec 2014
Obesity is the new smoking in terms of its impact on health and cost to the
national health service (NHS), according to the organisation's England chief
executive.
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23 Sep 2014
The day before the smoking ban came into effect in Scotland, leisure facility operator Edinburgh Leisure took its health and fitness roadshow to two of the city’s shopping centres to help smokers kick the habit and get healthy.
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10 Apr 2006
Physical inactivity poses a greater risk of heart disease in women over 30 than
obesity, high blood pressure or smoking, according to new research.
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09 May 2014
Physical inactivity is a major factor in lifestyle diseases like cancer and diabetes. Is it time for a top-down intervention to get people moving?
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Livingwell Premier Inverness has been awarded Scotland’s Health at Work (SHAW) Silver Award, in recognition of its ongoing commitment to the health and wellbeing of its team.
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09 Feb 2005
Throughout January, Broxbourne Borough Council is providing a free fitness testing service at its Grundy Park Leisure Centre and The John Warner Sports Centre.
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13 Jan 2006
The impact of low physical activity on middle age men is nearly as bad as smoking – according to a
study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
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04 Aug 2016
An NHS body has told obese patients to lose weight or face delays in having non-emergency
surgery, arguing that eating healthily and taking exercise can make a ‘real difference’ to the
results of operations.
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29 Nov 2016
A hard-hitting new study claims that living a sedentary lifestyle is more detrimental to health than
smoking, diabetes and heart disease.
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25 Oct 2018
The government is to promote physical activity as part of a range of measures to tackle the
causes of preventable ill-health.
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23 Jul 2019
Do we need legislation to get people moving, and if so are we looking for fitness’ equivalent of the smoking ban? Kate Cracknell offers her thoughts
HCM issue 3 2015
We must present a united front with our wellness allies to keep the momentum behind integrated wellbeing, says Kate Cracknell
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Public Health England CEO Duncan Selbie has called on the NHS to prioritise the prevention of
obesity, cardiovascular disease and smoking in its new long-term plan.
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10 Sep 2018
A study by Cancer Research has revealed that around 40 per cent of cancers in
women and 45 per cent of those in men could be prevented by healthier lifestyles.
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07 Dec 2011
The worldwide cost of obesity is about the same as
smoking or the war on terror
and more than both alcoholism and climate
change, according to new research.
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20 Nov 2014
Prime Minister Tony Blair has urged the public to take responsibility for their own health.
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26 Jul 2006
ukactive's 'Turning the Tide on Obesity' campaign is the latest to rely on nudging. But what is nudging, and does it work? Tom Walker looks at what's involved
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Members are telling us they need support with their mental and spiritual health and the industry is starting to see this need. Now’s the time to fast-track our response
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As more people join clubs to support their mental
health, fitness professionals need to be empowered to
take a holistic approach. Kath Hudson shares useful
tools discussed at the ACE summit on mental health
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New research has found BMI to be a highly inaccurate measure of childhood obesity, leading current thinking and policy based on it into question
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