Smoke and hashtags: Tobacco’s love of social media shows it can’t be trusted

Amid all the pouts, glitter and motivational quotes that dominate our Instagram feeds, it’s easy to miss the tobacco advertising which is slyly slipping into the background. New research has shown the tobacco giants have a new favourite marketing trick: using Insta influencers as Trojan horses to infiltrate the youth market. The findings only reinforce the view that the industry will stop at nothing to maintain sales, despite its products’ rather unfortunate tendency to kill its customers. As the world’s...

Quiz: Can you spot the symptoms of Meningitis?

A new interactive quiz has been launched after a poll of 2,000 Brits revealed 55 per cent of us are unsure what diseases and conditions we are immunised against. Despite a national vaccination programme that aims to protect all young people against a particularly deadly type of meningitis - meningococcal W meningitis and septicaemia (MenW), 76 per cent of 18-25 year olds surveyed were unaware of the disease. And only 22 per cent of people surveyed by OnePoll.com know that teenagers...

Page 75 of 118 1 74 75 76 118
-->