BBC admits Casualty smoking storyline did not have to be dropped

Clare Hudson, head of productions for BBC Wales, originally said plot was dropped due to Wales's tough anti-smoking lawshe BBC has been forced into an embarrassing U-turn over claims that it had to axe a storyline in Casualty about the dangers of smoking because of Wales's stringent anti-smoking laws.
BBC Wales head of productions Clare Hudson made the comment in evidence to members of the Welsh national assembly earlier this week, highlighting the difficulties that tough smoking regulations posed for programme-makers which she said could cost the Welsh economy up to £20m a year.

The top six fruits for energy and quit smoking

 This may be controversial. Since high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) has been pointed out as a leading cause of fatty liver, obesity, and other bad health issues, many assume the same is true for consuming fruits.

Yes, fruits contain fructose. But that fructose is in much smaller quantities than HFCS. Dr. Mark Hyman refers to the massive amounts of HFCS in processed foods and beverages as pharmacological, or intensely condensed and isolated or extracted from it's food source. (Source below)

All the doctors sourced below agree that fructose in excess gets converted mostly to triglyceride fats instead of glucose for energy. Even table sugar (sucrose) gets converted to glucose more efficiently and without clogging up the liver.

The sudden surge in obesity and type-2 diabetes began with the introduction of HFCS into processed foods and beverages.

Why are Britons more susceptible to disease?

The number of years Britons can expect to live before disease and disability take their toll is below average, but not all of that is down to hospital care. Photograph: Murdo Macleod for the Guardian

For the last 60 years, the UK has gloried in a healthcare system that is free to all its citizens and regularly described by politicians as the envy of the world. It has brought in a smoking ban in public places, it has good immunisation systems, cancer screening and has reduced salt in food. And yet, say the authors of a major piece of work on the global burden of disease, the UK lags behind many other comparable countries in terms of the health of its population.
The report published in the Lancet medical journal by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in Seattle, using data supplied by UK experts and organisations, compares health in the UK with health in 18 other countries – 14 other members of the EU, plus Australia, Canada, Norway and the US.
The exercise is the first time data from the Global Burden of Disease project – which has pulled together an extraordinary amount of information from 187 countries – has been used to compare similar nations and figure out why some do better than others.
The UK is below average in terms

Smokeless cigarettes a safer choice for addicts

Smoking is an addiction and addiction, in whatever form, is notoriously difficult to stop. People say 'well why not just stop and show some willpower?' which is not helpful at all. If it this was that easy there would be no one addicted to anything. Therefore people use e-cigarettes as a safer substitute for the horrid practice of smoking real ones, not necessarily to give up.

There is a risk, which is shown in your article, that if e-cigarettes were classed as a stop-smoking method they will then have to be classed as a 'medicine' and be severely prohibited and then become inaccessible to many people.