Stories
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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Air of threat
Novelist Chloe Aridjis vividly describes the suffocating atmosphere of Mexico City, as a combination of topography, crowded neighbourhoods, and reckless political diktats create a downward spiral.
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Intertwined with air
Siwakorn Odochao details his people’s way of perceiving trees and humans as intimately connected, and draws on the air as the element that weaves between them. Through the co-dependency of humans and trees to prepare the air for each other, he elaborates on the relationship between air, health and environment.
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Having children as a fat woman
When she sought fertility advice, and at antenatal appointments, Ellie Levenson found that medics were openly anti-fat. Only years later can she evaluate the true repercussions of their words and actions.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Health Education CouncilDate: 1974-1979Reference: SA/HEC/B/24/132Part of: Health Education Council and Health Education Authority- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)Date: 1930s-2002Reference: SA/ASH- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Date: 1980s-1990sReference: PP/CMF/JPart of: Fletcher, Charles Montague (1911-1995), epidemiologist- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (Ash). Correspondence relating to ASH publications and ASH fact sheets nos. 1 to 9
Date: Nov 1984-Aug 1985Reference: SA/BAC/E/2/1Part of: BACUP (British Association of Cancer United Patients and their families and friends)- Archives and manuscripts
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Action on Smoking and Health
Date: 1983-1984Reference: SA/ASH/X/2/20Part of: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)