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Public health expert warns Town Hall could ‘come to regret’ vape store partnership
Professor Martin McKee calls decision to actively promote vaping ‘incredible’, but council says it is ‘maximising support to smokers’
Over 13,500 cigarettes seized in raid on Hoxton shop amid council crackdown on illegal tobacco
Sniffer dog Pippa helps trading standards officers track down the stash, hidden in a sink unit and under the chocolate stand
Hackney agrees £4 million deal to combine ‘stop smoking’ services
Health chief McShane says the deal will make service accountable
‘Right and proper’: Homerton Hospital to go smoke-free in 2018
Chief nurse says hospital is ‘falling into line’ with total smoking ban
Council pension fund owns £27 million in tobacco firms – Happy Stoptober!
Hackney Council defends doubling of assets, saying it has a ‘legal duty to maximise investments’
Quitters a ‘priority’ but council failing to kick its own tobacco habit
No cuts to Stop Smoking services in Hackney despite council investing millions in tobacco through pension fund
Hackney Council meeting ends in farce amid accusations of Standards Committee ‘bias’
Dalston Special Policy Area plans voted through earlier in evening
Hackney has highest male lung and bladder cancer death rates in London
Smoking and air pollution blamed for diseases as charity fumes at ‘invisible public health crisis’
Hackney Council admits debate on its tobacco investments needed
Cllr Jonathan McShane questions whether council should be investing in tobacco companies whilst promoting messages about healthy lifestyles
Hackney Council’s tobacco investments back in the spotlight
Anti-smoking campaigners reject council’s defence of £10.5 million pension fund investments in tobacco stocks
Hackney Council pumps taxpayer millions into tobacco firms
Anti-smoking campaigners angry at Town Hall tobacco investments. ‘Everyone does it’ response from council as it promotes smoke-free kids’ play area
Clissold Park play area to become smoke-free
The council, as part of the Hackney Tobacco Control Alliance, is introducing a new no-smoking initiative in the borough’s most popular park
Kicking the habit: Hackney residents get free help to quit smoking
Smokers are being offered free nicotine gum and patches by the NHS to help them quit