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Reducing smoking to save lives
We’ve fought against smoking for decades, from demonstrating that passive smoking in public places kills, to influencing Government policy.
It’s now well-known that smoking kills. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that smoking was proven to lead to heart attacks and stroke. In the 1980s, research started to demonstrate that non-smokers living with smokers were at higher risk of heart and circulatory diseases, as well as other conditions. And so our understanding of the dangers passive smoking began. But it was not until the early 2000s that people understood the damage caused by exposure to tobacco smoke in public places, such as the workplace, pubs, restaurants. Our research helped to reveal this, and in particular the effects that second-hand smoke in public places can have on the heart and blood vessels. ....

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