Inequalities

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

'There are so many reasons why effective tobacco control is good for Scotland. However, perhaps the most troubling aspect of current smoking patterns is the hugely disproportionate impact on Scotland’s most deprived communities.'

• ASH Scotland work to reduce inequalities in health
• Raising Scotland’s Tobacco Free Generation (June 2018) - Scottish Government's current tobacco control action plan
  

• Informing Investment to reduce health Inequalities (Triple I) - Scottish Public Health Observatory
  The Informing Investment to reduce health Inequalities (Triple I) project aims to provide national and local decision makers with practical tools and interpreted research findings that will inform decisions about investing in interventions to reduce health inequalities in Scotland. It does this by modelling the potential impact of different interventions on overall population health and health inequalities.
  

• Identifying best practice in actions on tobacco smoking to reduce health inequalities European Commission Social Determinants and Public Health Pollicy.  'Studies conducted in North America and in Europe, show that for people in the 35 - 64 age group, when people of low socio- economic status are compared with their peers in higher social strata, more than half of the difference in mortality risk is accounted for by tobacco smoking.'
• Health Inequalities Policy Review for the Scottish Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities
  This document was written to provide evidence to the 2013 Scottish Ministerial Task Force on Health Inequalities. It reviews the current policy and the evidence about what works to address health inequalities.
• Review of social determinants and the health divide in the WHO European Region: final report

• Brown J et al.  Employment status and health: understanding the health of the economically inactive population in Scotland.  BMC Public Health 2012, 12:327. 
  The permanently sick, looking after home and family and unemployed are more likely to be smokers than the employed [group] which is consistent with the findings of a longitudinal study which showed that men who experienced unemployment were more likely to smoke. Also the non employed do not have the workplace smoking restrictions which have been