In this episode, Dr Elle Wadsworth talks to Dr Eve Taylor, a research fellow at University College London, UK. The interview covers Eve’s research article looking at smoking and drinking among the Gypsy and Traveller communities in England.

The Gypsy and Traveller community in the UK [01:24]
The importance of studying this community with regards to smoking and drinking [02:28]
The underrepresentation of the Gypsy and Traveller communities in national data [03:27]
The Smoking Toolkit study [03:59]
How the Smoking Toolkit study addresses limitations found in previous studies [04:55]
The key findings from the study: smoking [05:44]
The key findings from the study: drinking [06:17]
The key findings from the study: smoking and drinking interaction [07:23]
Whether the findings were expected [08:00]
The implications of the findings [09:38]
Examples of good practice within the community [12:40]
The stark difference in the smoking rates between ethnicities in England [14:00]
The take home messages from the study [14:39]

About Elle Wadsworth: Elle is an academic fellow with the Society for the Study of Addiction. She is based at the University of Bath with the Addiction and Mental Health Group and her research interests include drug policy, cannabis legalisation, and public health.

About Eve Taylor: Eve is a Research Fellow at University College London, specialising in tobacco and nicotine research. Her research uses methods ranging from biomarker collection to population-level survey analysis with the aim of supporting harm reduction and reducing health inequalities associated with tobacco and nicotine use. Eve’s current work focuses on barriers and facilitators to cessation support among people who use non-cigarette tobacco, with a focus on inequality among minority ethnic communities. Eve has no conflicts of interest to declare.

Original article: Smoking and drinking among the Gypsy and Traveller communities: A population study in England https://doi.org/10.1111/add.70330

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