We need a national strategy to motivate more people with mental health conditions to make a quit attempt, increase awareness of the benefits of quitting for mental health and offer targeted stop smoking support to people with common mental health conditions like depression and anxiety. Full list of signatories: Professor Ann McNeill, Professor of Tobacco Addiction, Kings College London, Co-Chair, Mental Health and Smoking Partnership Mark Rowland, Chief Executive, Mental Health Foundation, Co-Chair, Mental Health and Smoking Partnership Sarah Hughes, Chief Executive, Centre for Mental Health Tom Madders, Co-CEO, YoungMinds Simon Blake OBE, Chief Executive, Mental Health First Aid England Kathy Roberts, Chief Executive, Association of Mental Health Providers Sophie Corlett, Interim Chief Executive, Mind Paula Ojok, Chief Executive, Helplines Partnership Dr Adrian James, President, Royal College of Psychiatrists Mark Winstanley, Chief Executive, Rethink Mental Illness Notes to the Editor The Mental Health and Smoking Partnership is a coalition of organisations who aim to reduce the disparities in smoking rates between people with and without a mental health condition

Chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson said: "Written health warnings have encouraged many smokers to stop
Long-term impact on the brain Over time, this can lead to dysfunction in the brain, as a person no longer gets the same pleasure from things, such as foods or hobbies, as they did before
He ran hard for a quarter of a mile, and at the end of that distance it began to be borne in upon him as a strange and curious thing that there were so few people about, and that there were no shops open