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Urology Week

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Published at 21 September, 2020 08:00.

Did you know that 10% of daily medical care involves urology?
Urology covers a wide spectrum of medical conditions, from prostate cancer to incontinence.

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World Lymphoma Awareness Day

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Published at 14 September, 2020 08:00.

WLAD is on 15th Lymphoma is the UK’s fifth most common cancer, but do you know the symptoms?

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Blood Pressure Awareness Week

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Published at 07 September, 2020 11:05.

This week is know your numbers week, here at Yorkshire Smokefree we are onboard with testing our blood pressure and making sure we take the right steps to reach and maintain a healthy blood pressure.

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Nine Previous Attempts and the Pressure was On...

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Published at 04 August, 2020 09:37.

A poem written by Carrie one of our advisors in conjunction with a service user

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Pride Month - June 2020

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Published at 09 June, 2020 14:00.

A recent study was undertaken by Public Health England in 2016 and discovered that people within the LGBTQIA+ community are significantly more likely to start smoking earlier and heavier!

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Step Up 30 - Bowel Cancer Awareness

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Published at 08 June, 2020 14:28.

Awareness and funding for bowel cancer is vitally important because it is widely known that every 15 minutes another patient is sadly diagnosed with bowel cancer, well over 42,000 people every year. A mind-boggling 7% of those cases are directly linked to regular, long term and frequent smoking habits, the number of severely affected patients increases depending on how many cigarettes are smoked per day.

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World No Tobacco Day 2020

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Published at 28 May, 2020 09:00.

It is widely known that smoking kills 8 million people a year, meaning it has never been more vitally important to choose life and take back control of your health.

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ASH warns that the ban on sale of menthol cigarettes is long overdue.

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Published at 20 May, 2020 08:46.

ASH warns that the ban on sale of menthol cigarettes is long overdue as 280 children a day take up smoking in England. Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) welcomes the introduction of the ban on child-friendly menthol cigarettes on 20th May as a decisive next step towards ending the tobacco epidemic.

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