05 August 2000 (Vol 321, Issue 7257)

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Editor's Choice

Big and bigger issues

BMJ 2000;321:0.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

News

Tony Blair launches radical NHS plan for England

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Elderly people will get free nursing care

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Plan leaves England “with third division” health service

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In brief

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Tobacco companies mounted “dirty tricks” campaign against WHO

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Smoking in parents increases meningococcal disease risk

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Liz Hurley sucks to stop smoking

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Vaccination in utero may cut vertical transmission

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G8 countries accused of ignoring debt relief

BMJ 2000;321:320.2 (Published 5 August 2000)

Drug firms use legal loopholes to safeguard brand names

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Surgeon sacked for “misconduct and misjudgment”

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Islet cell transplantation more successful than previously thought

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A $145bn verdict and a “roar of moral outrage”

BMJ 2000;321:322.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

Editorials

Moving tobacco control beyond “the tipping point”

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Protecting children from passive smoking

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Improving the treatment of tobacco dependence

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The Engle verdicts and tobacco litigation

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The truth about big tobacco in its own words

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WHO faces up to its tobacco links

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The NHS plan

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Letters

This week's Letters section

Smoking research of the 1950s could be celebrated in UK and US stamps

BMJ 2000;321:378.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

Smoking and dementia in male British doctors

BMJ 2000;321:378.2 (Published 5 August 2000)

Nicotine replacement can be obtained on prescription

BMJ 2000;321:379.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

Tumour markers in malignancies

BMJ 2000;321:379.2 (Published 5 August 2000)

HTLV-I is lower in blood donors in West Midlands than South Thames

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Letters - continued

Promoting health of looked after children

BMJ 2000;321:381.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

Teenage pregnancy rates and the age and sex of general practitioners

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Carriage rate of Neisseria meningitidis among university students

BMJ 2000;321:383.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

Continuing to use APACHE II scores ensures consistency

BMJ 2000;321:383.2 (Published 5 August 2000)

Awareness of a hospital's antibiotic policy can be improved

BMJ 2000;321:384.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

Telling patients with schizophrenia their diagnosis

BMJ 2000;321:384.2 (Published 5 August 2000)

Ability of toddlers to recognise TV images

BMJ 2000;321:385.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

More training is needed in health care of people with learning disabilities

BMJ 2000;321:385.2 (Published 5 August 2000)

Letter indicates misreading of our paper on chromium waste

BMJ 2000;321:386.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

Cycling and health

BMJ 2000;321:386.2 (Published 5 August 2000)

Minerva

Minerva

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Fillers

My Cuban experience

BMJ 2000;321:342 (Published 5 August 2000)

In favour of the weed

BMJ 2000;321:350 (Published 5 August 2000)

Targeting the kids

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Everest and the therapeutic cigarette

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This Week In the BMJ

Widespread smoking cessation has halved UK lung cancer mortality

BMJ 2000;321:0.2 (Published 5 August 2000)

Smoking bans at home and in public places cut teenage smoking

BMJ 2000;321:0.4 (Published 5 August 2000)

Smoking reduction can help the recalcitrant smoker

BMJ 2000;321:0.3 (Published 5 August 2000)

Parents who smoke are still exposing their children to passive smoking in the home

BMJ 2000;321:0.6 (Published 5 August 2000)

Tobacco control is successful in Mauritius

BMJ 2000;321:0.7 (Published 5 August 2000)

Counselling smoking mothers protects their children from passive smoking

BMJ 2000;321:0.5 (Published 5 August 2000)

Clinical Reviews

Effectiveness of interventions to help people stop smoking: findings from the Cochrane Library

BMJ 2000;321:355 (Published 5 August 2000)

The economics of global tobacco control

BMJ 2000;321:358 (Published 5 August 2000)

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

Blair launches radical NHS plan for England

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Almost a million elderly people seek new insurance cover

BMJ 2000;321:322.3 (Published 5 August 2000)

Gene seems to induce metastasis

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News extra [these stories appear only on the web] - continued

Biodegradable stents developed

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A $145 billion verdict and a “roar of moral outrage”

BMJ 2000;321:322.6 (Published 5 August 2000)

Papers

Smoking, smoking cessation, and lung cancer in the UK since 1950: combination of national statistics with two case-control studies

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Smoking reduction with oral nicotine inhalers: double blind, randomised clinical trial of efficacy and safety

BMJ 2000;321:329 (Published 5 August 2000)

Effect of restrictions on smoking at home, at school, and in public places on teenage smoking: cross sectional study

BMJ 2000;321:333 (Published 5 August 2000)

Effect of counselling mothers on their children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke: randomised controlled trial

BMJ 2000;321:337 (Published 5 August 2000)

Children's exposure to passive smoking in England since the 1980s: cotinine evidence from population surveys

BMJ 2000;321:343 (Published 5 August 2000)

Decreasing prevalence of cigarette smoking in the middle income country of Mauritius: questionnaire survey

BMJ 2000;321:345 (Published 5 August 2000)

Increased mortality among Danish women: population based register study

BMJ 2000;321:349 (Published 5 August 2000)

General practice

Impact of the Massachusetts tobacco control programme: population based trend analysis

BMJ 2000;321:351 (Published 5 August 2000)

Education and debate

Do candy cigarettes encourage young people to smoke?

BMJ 2000;321:362 (Published 5 August 2000)

A day in the life of an advertising man: review of internal documents from the UK tobacco industry's principal advertising agencies

BMJ 2000;321:366 (Published 5 August 2000)

“Operation Berkshire”: the international tobacco companies' conspiracy

BMJ 2000;321:371 (Published 5 August 2000)

Religious challenge by shareholder actions: changing the behaviour of tobacco companies and their allies

BMJ 2000;321:375 (Published 5 August 2000)

Books

Smoking in British Popular Culture 1800-2000

BMJ 2000;321:389.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

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

BMJ 2000;321:389.2 (Published 5 August 2000)

Blood and Smoke

BMJ 2000;321:390.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

Stopping smoking

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BOOKCASE

Bookcase

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Personal View

Is general practice being consigned to history?

BMJ 2000;321:391.1 (Published 5 August 2000)

Soundings

Happy birthday, Ma'am

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Cover Note

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Obituary

This week's Obituary section

Richard HannahWalter HausmannPatrice Mary Kilgour (née Blackett)John Edwin MorleyCatherine Morrah (née Day)

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