Smokeless tobacco in the UK: Products, prevalence and profile
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Author(s)
Ray Croucher
Presenter(s)
Professor Ray Croucher Professor of Community Oral Health, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry
Abstract
There has been a longstanding lack of strategic thinking about the place of smokeless tobacco cessation activity in the NHS Stop Smoking Services (SSS). Whilst it is widely recognised that the smokeless tobacco products available in the UK have adverse effects on health the provision of any SSS quit support for smokeless tobacco users has been discretionary, potentially compounding health inequalities in users many of whom are from disadvantaged communities. This presentation will review the evidence base - the range of smokeless tobacco products available in England, their prevalence of use and their toxicity profile - underpinning recently proposed smokeless tobacco initiatives proposed within Health lives, Healthy People: A Tobacco Control Plan for England and the NICE Public Health Guidance on the delivery of cessation services for smokeless tobacco users which will be published in 2012. Emerging evidence of the effectiveness of trained community outreach workers providing evidence based smokeless cessation support will be presented.
Source of funding: 1. DH Tobacco Control Inequalities Pilot Programme
2. NHS Tower Hamlets
