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Bill banning people born after 2008 from buying tobacco clears UK parliament

Smoking leads to 400,000 hospital admissions and 64,000 deaths a year in England alone and costs the NHS £3bn in treatments for tobacco-related illnesses such as cancer and heart disease

Early care scheme could prevent thousands of miscarriages a year

England. One in five pregnancies end in miscarriage, most before 14 weeks. Lisa, 34, told her husband: "We're not waiting another year. We need to be pregnant and miscarry as soon as we possibly

People in UK spend fewer years in good health than a decade ago, study finds

cost of welfare,” Dixon added. Governments have done too little to address a rising burden of often avoidable illness, she said. “Successive governments, including the current one, have known this but failed to take

We thought Gen Z weren't drinking. But these cocktails in a ball may suggest otherwise

cost £1, the 20-year-old says. But it's not just about price or what's inside the cans. Ellen Jenkins from food and drink consultancy HRA Global draws a comparison between the appearance

Raise tax on alcohol and junk food to cut deaths from liver disease, experts say

smoking over recent decades and urgently address what the WHO calls the “commercial determinants of health” – producers of tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed food and fossil fuels promoting products that the UN’s health arm believes