Cigarette Packets, Sex Education, Gallstones, Cosmetic Surgery

Inside Health

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.4 • 575 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2015

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The big news in public health this week with the parliamentary vote on the introduction of standardised cigarette packets. A move the tobacco industry has resisted fiercely. Inside Health discusses the evidence for the sort of impact the policy might have on the nation's smoking habits?

The difficult issue of when and how to tell children about sex. Schools throughout England are to be offered new guidance to help them with sex education in PHSE classes for KS3 and KS4 pupils. But, the classes are still not going to be made a statutory part of the curriculum. Inside Health's Margaret McCartney examines the evidence.

And a listener has asked about gallstones after a recent scan had shown debris or sludge in the gallbladder.

Plus news from Las Vegas, New York and the UK on trends in plastic surgery.

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0:32.2	Sounds. Hello, thank you for listening to this edition of Inside Health. I hope you enjoy it.
0:37.5	Coming up today, sex education. It's come on a bit since the days of the birds and the bees,
0:43.1	but should schools be doing more? Cosmetic Surgery. We examine the latest report from the UK,
0:48.6	which, contrary to what you might expect, indicates that fewer people are going under the knife to improve their appearance.
0:55.7	In some areas, reductions of up to 25 or 30% would seem that there has been a dramatic change in
1:04.6	the way patients are behaving. And we go to Las Vegas and New York to find out what's going on there,
1:10.6	because in this field,
1:11.6	where the Americans lead, we so often follow. And gallstones, we answer a listener's question
1:16.7	about when they need removing, and when they don't. But first, the big news in public health this
1:22.5	week is the parliamentary vote on the introduction of standardised cigarette packets, a move the tobacco industry
1:28.4	has resisted fiercely. But what sort of impact might standardise packaging have on the nation's
1:34.0	smoking habits? To debate the issue, Martin McKee, who's Professor of Public Health at the London School
1:39.2	of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Linda Bald, Professor of Health Policy at the University of Stirling.
1:45.3	The reason it's a good idea is because what's happened in the UK in many other countries
1:48.8	is that the tobacco industry's ability to promote and advertise its products
1:52.4	has been gradually removed through legislation.
1:55.3	So we saw bans, for example, on television advertising, billboards, etc.
1:59.5	And so what happened was as that was removed,
2:01.9	the industry placed its considerable marketing and promotion budget into the PAC.
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