The impacts on young people's smoking behaviour of smoking in films. From evidence to action; how can we engage industry, policy makers and the public?
Professor John Britton, Hazel Cheezeman and Andrea Crossfield
Presenter(s)
Professor John Britton Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, University of Nottingham
Dr Jo Cranwell New Media Lead in Smoking and Alcohol Research, University of Nottingham
Deborah Arnott Chief Executive, Action on Smoking & Health (ASH), London
Biography
Professor Britton is Professor of Epidemiology and Head of the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at Nottingham University, and is a consultant in respiratory medicine at Nottingham City Hospital. He is Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies, which is a network of tobacco and alcohol research groups from nine universities led from the University of Nottingham. He also chairs the Royal College of Physicians tobacco advisory group, as well as being co-Chair of PHE's Tobacco Control Implementation Board.
Deborah Arnott is Chief Executive of Action on Smoking and Health (UK), honorary associate professor in the Division of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Nottingham, honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and a member of the RCP’s Tobacco Advisory Group.
She is a recognised national and international expert on tobacco control and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
In 2007 she was awarded the Alwyn Smith Prize presented by the UK Faculty of Public Health to the person judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the health of the public.
