How much does smoking damage our mental health?
Science Weekly
The Guardian
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🗓️ 14 June 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. Hello this is Max Rushton from The Guardian Football Weekly. I hope you're enjoying |
| 0:14.4 | your other Guardian Pod and look you've read 58 articles now and you're still not |
| 0:18.8 | contributing so why not come to our live tour? We're in Leeds on the 13th of June, Birmingham on the 15th, |
| 0:25.6 | Manchester on the 19th, Glasgow on the 13th of July. The panelists are brilliant. |
| 0:32.1 | Me and Barry are getting away with it, but they're really fun occasions |
| 0:36.5 | and we'd love you to come. A few tickets remaining for some, lots of tickets remaining |
| 0:41.7 | for others, no tickets remaining for others. |
| 0:42.5 | No tickets remaining for others. |
| 0:45.0 | Don't know why. |
| 0:46.0 | That's just we're popular in Dublin and not in Birmingham. |
| 0:48.6 | But please come along, my ticket.co. |
| 0:50.6 | UK. |
| 0:51.8 | You can get your tickets at my ticket.co. UK. If you're listening from the UK you might have already heard about a big review that came out last week on tackling the smoking epidemic. |
| 1:19.0 | The government wants fewer than 5% of people in England to smoke by 2030, but that would require drastic action. |
| 1:27.6 | One of the recommendations that caught everyone's attention was raising the age of sale |
| 1:32.3 | from 18 by one year every year until no one can buy tobacco |
| 1:37.7 | product. |
| 1:38.7 | Something that New Zealand is already planning to do. But there was another recommendation, a little further down the list, |
| 1:48.4 | the almost passed unnoticed. It was addressing smoking and mental health. |
| 1:55.0 | It's a big group of smokers that don't really get discussed much. |
| 2:00.0 | But in England, one in three cigarettes is smoked by somebody with a mental health condition. |
| 2:07.0 | So why is there this link between smoking and our mental health? |
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