Honours update

Another honours list and still no recognition for the long-standing CEOs of ASH and ASH Scotland.

I must sound like a broken record so I won’t repeat what I have written every year since 2013 when I wrote this, New Year Honours: Arnott and Duffy overlooked again.

Nevertheless it does puzzle me that while the directors of regional anti-smoking groups such as Smokefree South West and Tobacco Free Futures (both now defunct) have subsequently been honoured, the principal titans of tobacco control in the UK continue to be overlooked.

What do Deborah Arnott and Sheila Duffy have to do to receive similar recognition? I think we should be told.

See also:
The waiting game (June 2018)
Sheila and Deborah snubbed again (December 2017)
Was it something I wrote? (December 2014)

PS. No chance of forgetting the gong awarded to Ailsa Rutter, director of Fresh North East, in the 2017 New Year Honours List!

None of us could have predicted what 2020 had in store for us. Our Director, Ailsa Rutter OBE reflects on a year that has driven hundreds of thousands to quit smoking for good. @SmokeFreeNHS_NE @ASH_LDN https://t.co/xoGi1GqCcF

— Fresh - Making Smoking History (@FreshSmokeFree) December 31, 2020