The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 274 No 7352 p671
4 June 2005

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World No Tobacco Day focuses on role of health professionals in helping smokers stop

The involvement of health care professionals, including pharmacists, in helping people give up smoking was the theme of this year’s World No Tobacco Day, launched earlier this week in London.

Public health minister Caroline Flint said at the launch: “Doctors, nurses and pharmacists enjoy a high degree of public trust and their regular contact with those with smoking-related conditions puts them in a prime position to provide support.”

To coincide with World No Tobacco Day the International Pharmaceutical Federation published a booklet to help pharmacists set up smoking cessation services. “Pharmacists against tobacco — how to get started” provides examples of best practice in terms of smoking cessation and tobacco control.

The booklet is available here (click on Activities link)