Stories
- Article
Guerrilla public health
From safe-use guides to needle exchange schemes, Harry Shapiro reflects on 40 years of drug harm reduction in the UK.
- In pictures
Smoking and the pleasure principle
Cigarettes gifted ex-smoker David Jesudason coughing, wheezing and fatigue, yet they also gave him pleasure. Here he unpicks his fluctuating attitudes towards lighting up.
- Article
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.
- Article
How writing helps me manage schizophrenia
For Erica Crompton, writing is much more than a career. It’s an essential component of her mental health toolkit.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)Date: 1930s-2002Reference: SA/ASH- Videos
We love cigarettes.
Date: 2006- Books
Protecting smokers, saving lives : the case for a tobacco and nicotine regulatory authority / prepared by the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians.
Royal College of Physicians of London. Tobacco Advisory Group.Date: [2002], ©2002- Videos
E-cigarettes : Miracle or menace?.
Date: 2016- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Loose scrap-book pages containing newspaper and journal cuttings: the majority of articles were generated by Cantlie's lectures and publications on public health matters
Date: 1920-1925Reference: MS.7933Part of: Cantlie, Sir James, F.R.C.S. (1851-1926)