Basingstoke MP Maria Miller met up recently with local “Ambassador” for Cancer Research UK, Effie Grant, for an update on how the charity is working to help prevent cancer.
Maria said: “I am very pleased to support Cancer Research UK’s work and particularly highlight how health awareness can help to prevent cancer related deaths. I was concerned to hear that the incidence of smoking is slightly higher in Basingstoke than the national average, including among young people aged 11 to 15.”
“It is really important that young people are taught the health risks associated with smoking, and also the risks of alcohol misuse and obesity, to help them to have healthy lifestyles. That’s one of the reasons why I supported the Government putting the necessary legislation in place to make PSHE compulsory."