Tobacco Control Policy in the UK

Public Health
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Background..................................................................................................................................3
Policy...........................................................................................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Tobacco is a dangerous consumer product and many people die prematurely due to smoking
related diseases. The combination of United Kingdom and European Union law is used to
regulate the tobacco products in United Kingdom. The use of tobacco is a major health issue that
influence communities and individuals adversely all across the nation (Ali and Jawad, 2017). It
impacts negatively on health, carries financial cost as well as place burden on National health
services. Therefore, strategic and comprehensive approach to control the use of tobacco is the
priority for local authorities in UK. This is an essay report which discusses about the tobacco
control policy. Study this policy is significant as use of tobacco is one among the key issues in
United Kingdom. This report covers background information about the policy along with its
impact on health service staff and society.
MAIN BODY
Background
Tobacco is an indigenous plant originally grown in in America not it grows across the
world. The leaves of the plant have high level of addictive chemical nicotine, cancer causing
chemicals, polyromantic hydrocarbons. Nicotine is the major chemical in tobacco. Leaves can be
applied to gums, inhaled or smoked. Nicotine is being taken out of the leaf to give rise to novel
nicotine products, like e-cigarettes, but it also produces nicotine replacement therapies, used to
cure tobacco addiction (Bold and Krishnan-Sarin, 2019). Tobacco exposure and use causes many
health problems such as cancer, respiratory, heart and other diseases. Tobacco epidemic is
biggest public health warning the world has faced, it is killing 8 million people or even more a
year across the world. In this, 7 million deaths are directly related to the use of direct tobacco
while 1.2 million deaths are related to non-smokers being reveal to second-hand source of
smoke.
Tobacco is harmful in it's all forms, and there is none safe level of reveal to tobacco.
Cigarettes are most commonly form of tobacco which is consumed across the world. Other
tobacco products are kreteks, bidis, pipe tobacco, roll your self-tobacco, cigarillos, cigars and
water pipe tobacco. In 1.3 billion tobacco consumers worldwide, over 80% live in middle and
low income countries, where burden of tobacco illness is heaviest (Bonnie, Stratton, and Kwan,
2015). Tobacco consumption greatly contributes to poverty as they divert their spending to
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