Widespread smoking cessation has halved UK lung cancer mortality [Full text]

	Smoking reduction can help the recalcitrant smoker [Full text]

	Smoking bans at home and in public places cut teenage smoking [Full text]

	Counselling smoking mothers protects their children from passive smoking [Full text]

	Parents who smoke are still exposing their children to passive smoking in the home [Full text]

	Tobacco control is successful in Mauritius [Full text]

Editorials

	Moving tobacco control beyond "the tipping point"
	Ronald M Davis
	BMJ  2000;321:309-310, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.309 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Protecting children from passive smoking
	Roberta Ferrence, Mary Jane Ashley
	BMJ  2000;321:310-311, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.310 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improving the treatment of tobacco dependence
	Michael Thun, Thomas J Glynn
	BMJ  2000;321:311-312, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.311 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The Engle verdicts and tobacco litigation
	Richard A Daynard
	BMJ  2000;321:312-313, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.312 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The truth about big tobacco in its own words
	Stanton A Glantz
	BMJ  2000;321:313-314, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.313 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	WHO faces up to its tobacco links
	Fiona Godlee
	BMJ  2000;321:314-315, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.314 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The NHS plan
	Jennifer Dixon, Steve Dewar
	BMJ  2000;321:315-316, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.315 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Smoking research of the 1950s could be celebrated in UK and US stamps
	James H Lutschg
	BMJ  2000;321:378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.378 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Smoking and dementia in male British doctors
	Eric Boyd, Joao Calinas-Correia, Richard Doll, Richard Peto
	BMJ  2000;321:378, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.378/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Nicotine replacement can be obtained on prescription
	John Britton
	BMJ  2000;321:379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.379 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tumour markers in malignancies
	Carlo Palmieri, Sam Fishpool, R C Coombes, A G Dalgleish, B M Colls, Annika Lindblom, Annelie Liljegren
	BMJ  2000;321:379, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.379/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	HTLV-I is lower in blood donors in West Midlands than South Thames
	John Kurtz, Neil Smith, Steve Harbour
	BMJ  2000;321:380, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.380 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Promoting health of looked after children
	S Acharyya, Sonya Leff
	BMJ  2000;321:381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.381 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Teenage pregnancy rates and the age and sex of general practitioners
	Babatunde A Gbolade, Wai-Ching Leung, Martin Bland, Julia Hippisley-Cox
	BMJ  2000;321:381, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.381/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Carriage rate of Neisseria meningitidis among university students
	Anna Gilmore, James Stuart, Keith R Neal, Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam, Nicholas Jeffrey, Richard C Slack, Richard J Madeley, Kamel Ait-Tahar, Katy Job, Martin C J Wale, Dlawer A A Ala'Aldeen
	BMJ  2000;321:383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.383 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Continuing to use APACHE II scores ensures consistency
	William Konarzewski
	BMJ  2000;321:383, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.383/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Awareness of a hospital's antibiotic policy can be improved
	Andy Levy, Debbie Campbell, Robert Spencer, Robert Heyderman
	BMJ  2000;321:384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.384 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Telling patients with schizophrenia their diagnosis
	R A Clafferty, Elaine McCabe, Keith W Brown, Martin Fisher
	BMJ  2000;321:384, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.384/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Ability of toddlers to recognise TV images
	Michael Hunter, Ben Lloyd, Kanthini Brodie
	BMJ  2000;321:385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.385 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	More training is needed in health care of people with learning disabilities
	Mhairi Duff, Matt Hoghton, Mark Scheepers
	BMJ  2000;321:385, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.385/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Letter indicates misreading of our paper on chromium waste
	Peter McCarron, Tim J Peters, I Harvey, R Brogan
	BMJ  2000;321:386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.386 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Cycling and health
	Richard Evans, Christine Love, Giselle Noceti Ammon Xavier, Ken Kifer, Helga Rhein, Zohra Chiheb, Ian Wacogne
	BMJ  2000;321:386, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.386/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	Tony Blair launches radical NHS plan for England
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;321:317, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.317 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Elderly people will get free nursing care
	Linda Beecham
	BMJ  2000;321:317, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.317/a [Extract] [Full text]

	Plan leaves England "with third division" health service
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2000;321:318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.318 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2000;321:318, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.318/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Tobacco companies mounted "dirty tricks" campaign against WHO
	Judy Jones
	BMJ  2000;321:319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.319 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Smoking in parents increases meningococcal disease risk
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2000;321:319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.319/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Liz Hurley sucks to stop smoking
	Ron Davis
	BMJ  2000;321:319, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.319/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Vaccination in utero may cut vertical transmission
	Abi Berger
	BMJ  2000;321:320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.320 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	G8 countries accused of ignoring debt relief
	Joe Lamar
	BMJ  2000;321:320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.320/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Drug firms use legal loopholes to safeguard brand names
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;321:320, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.320/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgeon sacked for "misconduct and misjudgment"
	Clare Dyer
	BMJ  2000;321:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.321 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Islet cell transplantation more successful than previously thought
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2000;321:321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.321/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	A $145bn verdict and a "roar of moral outrage"
	BMJ  2000;321:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.322 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Blair launches radical NHS plan for England
	BMJ  2000;321:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.322/a [Extract] [Full text]

	Almost a million elderly people seek new insurance cover
	BMJ  2000;321:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.322/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Gene seems to induce metastasis
	BMJ  2000;321:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.322/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Biodegradable stents developed
	BMJ  2000;321:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.322/d [Extract] [Full text]

	A $145 billion verdict and a "roar of moral outrage"
	BMJ  2000;321:322, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.322/e [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

	Regular review: Effectiveness of interventions to help people stop smoking: findings from the Cochrane Library
	Tim Lancaster, Lindsay Stead, Chris Silagy, Amanda Sowden
	BMJ  2000;321:355-358, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.355 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	The economics of global tobacco control
	Prabhat Jha, Frank J Chaloupka
	BMJ  2000;321:358-361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.358 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Extra tables]

General practice

	Impact of the Massachusetts tobacco control programme: population based trend analysis
	Lois Biener, Jeffrey E Harris, William Hamilton
	BMJ  2000;321:351-354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.351 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

	Happy birthday, Ma'am
	James Owen Drife
	BMJ  2000;321:391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.391/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	Is general practice being consigned to history?
	Frank Akerman
	BMJ  2000;321:391, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.391 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	Do candy cigarettes encourage young people to smoke?
	Jonathan D Klein, Steve St Clair
	BMJ  2000;321:362-365, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.362 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A day in the life of an advertising man: review of internal documents from the UK tobacco industry's principal advertising agencies
	Gerard Hastings, Lynn MacFadyen
	BMJ  2000;321:366-371, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.366 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: References]

	"Operation Berkshire": the international tobacco companies' conspiracy
	Neil Francey, Simon Chapman
	BMJ  2000;321:371-374, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.371 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Religious challenge by shareholder actions: changing the behaviour of tobacco companies and their allies
	Michael H Crosby
	BMJ  2000;321:375-377, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.375 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Tables]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2000;321:392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.392 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	My Cuban experience
	A A Palejwala
	BMJ  2000;321:342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.342 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	A memorable patient: In favour of the weed
	Clare Tyler
	BMJ  2000;321:350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.350 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Targeting the kids
	Ron Davis
	BMJ  2000;321:354, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.354 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Everest and the therapeutic cigarette
	C L Davidson
	BMJ  2000;321:361, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.361 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOK

	Book: Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000
	Christopher N Martyn
	BMJ  2000;321:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.389 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Denial & Delay: The Political History of Smoking and Health 1951-1964, Scientists, Government and Industry as seen in the papers at the Public Records Office
	Michelle Scollo
	BMJ  2000;321:389, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.389/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Book: Blood and Smoke
	Ronald M Davis
	BMJ  2000;321:390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.390 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	Big and bigger issues
	BMJ  2000;321, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.0 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

BOOKCASE

	Bookcase
	Christopher Martyn
	BMJ  2000;321:390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.390/b [Full text] [Request Permissions]

COVER NOTE

	BMJ  2000;321:392, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.392/a [Full text] [Request Permissions] [extra: Essay: The Marlboro Man]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Stopping smoking
	Alison Tonks
	BMJ  2000;321:390, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.390/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Richard Hannah • Walter Hausmann • Patrice Mary Kilgour (née Blackett) • John Edwin Morley • Catherine Morrah (née Day)
	John Miles, David G Price, Relton Cummings, S Thomas Pickles, Clare Hayward
	BMJ  2000;321:388, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.388 [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Smoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950: combination of national statistics with two case-control studies
	Richard Peto, Sarah Darby, Harz Deo, Paul Silcocks, Elise Whitley, Richard Doll
	BMJ  2000;321:323-329, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.323 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Further details] FREE

	Smoking reduction with oral nicotine inhalers: double blind, randomised clinical trial of efficacy and safety
	Chris T Bolliger, Jean-Pierre Zellweger, Tobias Danielsson, Xandra van Biljon, Annik Robidou, Åke Westin, André P Perruchoud, Urbain Säwe
	BMJ  2000;321:329-333, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.329 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history] FREE

	Effect of restrictions on smoking at home, at school, and in public places on teenage smoking: cross sectional study
	Melanie A Wakefield, Frank J Chaloupka, Nancy J Kaufman, C Tracy Orleans, Dianne C Barker, Erin E Ruel
	BMJ  2000;321:333-337, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.333 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Prepublication history] FREE

	Effect of counselling mothers on their children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: randomised controlled trial
	Melbourne F Hovell, Joy M Zakarian, Georg E Matt, C Richard Hofstetter, J Thomas Bernert, James Pirkle
	BMJ  2000;321:337-342, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.337 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Children's exposure to passive smoking in England since the 1980s: cotinine evidence from population surveys
	Martin J Jarvis, Eileen Goddard, Vanessa Higgins, Colin Feyerabend, Andrew Bryant, Derek G Cook
	BMJ  2000;321:343-345, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.343 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Decreasing prevalence of cigarette smoking in the middle income country of Mauritius: questionnaire survey
	Helen S Cox, Joanne W Williams, Maximilian P de Courten, Pierrot Chitson, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Paul Z Zimmet
	BMJ  2000;321:345-349, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.345 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Increased mortality among Danish women: population based register study
	Knud Juel
	BMJ  2000;321:349-350, doi: 10.1136/bmj.321.7257.349 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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