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Wes Streeting says Labour will whip its MPs to vote in favour of Sunak's ban on sale of cigarettes to future generations
Streeting says Rishi Sunak announced plans stop the next generation smoking. But he says Sunak did not credit the New Zealand Labour party, which implemented this first.
Sunak is offering a free vote to Tory MPs, he says. And Liz Truss says she will vote against.
But Streeting says Labour will come to Sunak’s rescue. It will whip its MPs to vote in favour of the gradual ban (gradual because the age at which people can buy cigarettes will rise by one year every year, so children 14 or younger today will never be allowed to buy them).
Source: The Guardian, 8 October 2023
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Greater Manchester’s health organisation welcomes Government’s smoking ban
The Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership has embraced Rishi Sunak’s announcement to reduce smoking in the next generation of people.
During a speech at the Tory Party Conference in Manchester last week, the prime minister announced plans to raise the legal age of cigarette sales every year to prevent children getting addicted to smoking.
Sarah Price, Chief Officer for Population and Health Inequalities at NHS Greater Manchester, said: “This is a historic moment.
“I look back on when the smoke-free law came into effect and the societal shift it brought about – and this is another vital step forward.
“People in Greater Manchester want to see an end to the health inequalities starkly felt across their communities and an end to young people getting hooked on smoking.”
The government’s plan also includes doubling funding for local stop-smoking services, increased funding for “quit smoking” campaigns and tackling illicit tobacco and vapes.
This will be in line with the Integrated Care Partnership’s commitment to Making Smoking History and delivering a Smokefree 2030 across the city region.
Tobacco harm costs Greater Manchester’s economy £910m each year and 5,700 people die each year from smoking-related causes, according to Greater Manchester Integrated Care Partnership.
Source: Mancunian Matters, 9 October 2023
See also: Prime Minister to create ‘smokefree generation’
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France urged to accept the science on how to stop smoking
France’s Parliamentary Office for Scientific and Technological Assessment has concluded that a drastic change in approach is required to get cigarette smokers to stop smoking. A report prepared by members of both chambers of the French Parliament recommends a risk reduction approach that offers smokers the chance to switch to much less harmful electronic cigarettes, writes Political Editor Nick Powell.
French tobacco policy relies heavily on high taxation to discourage cigarette smoking. This has led to an influx of smuggled, counterfeit and other illicit cigarettes and a continued high smoking rate compared with many other European countries. This ‘quit or die’ approach means that most people in France, according to a survey earlier this year, have little or no knowledge of smoke-free alternatives, such as e-cigarettes.
The report by National Assembly Member Gérard Leseul and Senator Catherine Procaccia recommends adopting a new risk reduction approach aimed at getting all smokers to break their cigarette habit. It specifically supports switching to the policy of the United Kingdom, which integrates electronic cigarettes into its tobacco control strategy.
It also calls for the swift launch of new and independent studies in France into the specific and relative harmfulness of different products and their effects on cigarette smoking. The report argues that it is particularly necessary to conduct independent studies on heated tobacco in order to inform future public policy.
Source: EU Reporter, 9 October 2023
See also: New tobacco or nicotine-based products: lifting the smokescreen
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