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Inside Health

Cigarette Filters; Sepsis

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4575 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Chris van Tulleken examines cigarette filters - the tobacco industry's hidden marketing tool. He talks to historian Robert Proctor, author of The Golden Holocaust and May van Schalkwyk explains why she wrote her paper 'No More Butts'. Plus Margaret McCartney discusses whether the media portrays a balanced view of Sepsis.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, and I'm Ed Gamble, host of another BBC podcast,

0:05.4

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0:10.6

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0:16.2

from the likes of Harriet Kemsley, Susie Ruffel and Rommas Shranger Nathan. However, and maybe I'm biased, it's really all about the traitors uncloked.

0:24.3

So for a whole bunch of exclusive scoops and podcasts, listen only on BBC Sounds.

0:30.6

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0:34.4

Hello, I'm Chris Van Tullochin.

0:36.0

I work as an infectious diseases doctor in London,

0:38.3

and when I'm not seeing patients, I study viruses and conflicts of interest. And if you've

0:43.3

looked after children over the last decade, you may have been discussed by my programme, Operation

0:48.2

Outch on Children's BBC while you were trying to eat dinner. So apologies for that. Today on Inside Health we have some spectacular contributors, as always,

0:57.1

and of course our resident sceptic Margaret McCarney is here too.

1:00.9

Margaret.

1:01.5

Well, Chris, I've been examining the media's reporting on sepsis.

1:05.7

Now, we know it's a condition that can be fatal,

1:07.9

and there's been a huge amount of awareness raising over the last few years.

1:11.8

But I'm wondering whether we are being worried by headlines that are not balancing reality well.

1:17.7

Well, thanks very much, Margaret.

1:19.0

And now it's time for a little word from our sponsors.

1:22.7

My mum whistling that cigarette ad from her own childhood is amongst my earliest musical memories.

1:32.0

And it's no coincidence that my cat is actually called Winston.

1:35.8

Winston's easy drawing to. The filter lets the flavour through.

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