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How the smoking ban could be contributing to skin cancer
Since the smoking ban came into force on July the 1st, smokers are spending over 20 extra hours outside each month so putting themselves at greater risk of skin damage.
Research from Boots shows that an alarming 60% of British sunburn cases occur on home turf, a figure set to rise with the smoking ban taking more people outdoors.
To help prevent the Smoker's Burn phenomena, the UK's leading health and beauty retailer has teamed up with the Laurel Pub Company to offer £300,000 worth of free sun cream to punters across the UK.
Sunburn worries
Boots suncare expert, Clare O'Connor, explains: "Even before the ban one in five admitted to having suffered sunburn while in a beer garden – a figure we would like to stub out rather than see grow."
"Much of the nation's sunburn is the result of complacency and so we're calling on people to take more care and remember that even on a cloudy day, you're still exposed to the sun's harmful rays."
As part of its stamp out sunburn campaign, Boots is working with the Laurel Pub Company, one of the UK's leading managed-house operators, to giveaway sachets of Soltan sun cream to customers at the UK-wide
