There are so many amazing women to celebrate today, but we’d like to pay our respects to Professor Ann McNeill.
Ann McNeill is Professor of Tobacco Addiction at the National Addiction Centre and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. She carried out her PhD at the then Institute of Psychiatry focusing on the development of dependence on smoking. Since that time she has held a variety of academic and public sector posts focusing largely on tobacco control research. Ann has an established international reputation, receiving a World Health Organisation award for contributions to tobacco control in 1998. She has published more than 250 academic papers, book chapters, reports and opinion pieces on the subject and her research ranges across prevention, cessation, harm reduction and local, national and international policy. Ann is a Deputy Director of the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies.
Professor McNeill has been at the forefront of Public Health England’s pioneering work to embrace vaping as a viable alternative to smoking. It was this work that helped shaped the vaping landscape we enjoy today here in the UK. Their research concluded that vaping was 95% less harmful than smoking, and whilst it was not risk free, vaping provided an alternative to smoking that will save lives over the years.
She speaks around the world on the subject of tobacco addition, cessation and the strategy of harm reduction in terms of helping people to use vaping to quit smoking.
Professor McNeill … WE SALUTE YOU!
