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Membership of the working group
Chairman and report author
Dr Laurence Gruer OBE, Director of Public Health Science, NHS Health Scotland
Members
Professor Amanda Amos, Professor of Health Promotion, Edinburgh University
Susan Charleston, ASH Scotland
Professor Candace Currie, Director, Child & Adolescent Health Research Unit, Edinburgh University
Mary Cuthbert, Tobacco Control Division, SEHD
Sarah Davidson, Tobacco Control Division, SEHD
Professor James Friend, Past Chair of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health
Wendy Halliday, Development Manager, Scottish Health Promoting Schools Unit
Professor Gerard Hastings, Director of the Institute for Social Marketing and Centre for Tobacco Control Research, University of Stirling
Michelle Hunt, Health Promotion Officer, Ayrshire and Arran Health Board
Ann Kerr, NHS Health Scotland
Katherine McNab, Pupil Support Team, SEED
Mark O'Donnell,ASH Scotland
David Pattison, Public Health Advisor, CMO's office
Brian Pringle, West Lothian Drugs and Alcohol Project/Scottish Tobacco Control Alliance
Professor Patrick West, Head of Youth and Health Programme, Faculty of Medicine, Glasgow University
Gary Wilson, NHS Health Scotland
Cath Young, Health Promotion Manager, NHS Borders
Secretariat
Joyce Whytock, Tobacco Control Division, SEHD
Nim Kumar, Tobacco Control Division, SEHD
Acknowledgments and thanks
The SPWG is grateful for the assistance in its deliberations it received from the following:
Dr Eleanor Anderson for conducting literature reviews of evidence for effectiveness.
Brian Crook of The Bridge Advertising Agency and
Danielle SharpNHS Health Scotland on approaches to smoking communications.
Martine Stead of Stirling University and Bob Stradling of Edinburgh University on 'The Nature and Effectiveness of Drug Education Practice in Scottish Schools'.
With respect to raising the age of sale of tobacco, we were aided by a Parliamentary briefing session organised by Duncan McNeilMSP relating to Guernsey's experience of raising the age of sale of tobacco from 16 to 18 and by submissions from ASH Scotland, the Scottish Coalition on Tobacco and the Scottish Parliament's Cross Party Group on Tobacco.
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