Inequalities

"Tobacco control is central to any strategy to tackle health inequalities"
Marmot Review (2010)

"We will help people to sustain and improve health, especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better, local access to health care"
The Scottish Government's strategic objective for a Healthier Scotland:
Scotland's Future is Smoke Free: A Smoking Prevention Action Plan

• ASH Scotland information briefing on tobacco use and people with mental health problems (updated April 2011) (pdf 75kb)
• ASH Scotland information briefing on tobacco and inequalities (March 2011), (pdf 102kb)
• Briefing on tobacco use and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities
  (March 2011) (pdf 71kb)
• PATH (Partnership Action on Tobacco and Health) report (July 2010)
  Stop-smoking service provision for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) communities in Scotland (pdf, 1.2mb)
• ASH Scotland information briefing on women and tobacco (May 2008) (pdf 50kb)
• ASH Scotland information briefing on tobacco use and minority ethnic groups (May 2008)(pdf 200kb)
• ASH Scotland information information briefing on types of tobacco used in some minority ethnic groups (May 2008) (pdf, 172kb)
• ASH Scotland inequalities projects