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The Times view on Rishi Sunak’s first year in office: ‘Keep Buggering On’
The Times review Rishi Sunak’s first year in office, writing that reinvention in office goes only so far, especially as the Tories have undergone so many changes in leadership over the past few years. They believe that Mr Sunak must continue to differentiate himself from his two immediate predecessors and focus on governing with the national rather than party interest at heart.
The Times commend some of the difficult decision that Mr Sunak has made during the past year, many of which are unlikely to yield tangible results for many years. Examples of this are his decision to scrap HS2 and also on smoking where he has instituted ‘’a progressive ban on cigarette sales that should spare the vast majority of today’s younger teenagers from the scourge of smoking’’.
For the Times, these actions, even if sometimes controversial, speak of a decisive politician willing to take tough decisions that he believes are in the national interest.
Source: The Times, 24 October 2023
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Illegal tobacco worth £12,500 seized from Gloucester flat
Officers executed a warrant at a flat in Gloucester city centre on 18 October following complaints from the community about the sale of illegal tobacco taking place in the area.
They found 2,284 packs of illegal cigarettes and 117 pouches of illegal hand rolling tobacco, worth a total of £12,500.
Gloucestershire County councillor Dave Norman, cabinet member for trading standards at Gloucestershire County Council, said: "Illegal tobacco harms the trade of legitimate suppliers and poses a risk to public health.
"This seizure shows that our trading standards team will work tirelessly to keep these harmful products off the streets and we are grateful to the community for information they pass to us."
Source: BBC News, 25 October 2023
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Vaping promotion at shops and on social media exposing young Australians to practice, study finds
Promotion by vape shops and social media advertising are key ways young people are being exposed to the practice, a new study as found, as health experts sound alarm at the number of vape stores that continue to open throughout Australia.
More than 4,000 people aged between 15 and 30 across Australia, China, India and the UK were asked by researchers about their e-cigarette and tobacco use, their friends and family members who vape and their exposure to e-cigarette advertising.
The most common real-life settings where the 1,006 Australian respondents saw advertising were vape shops (45%), followed by tobacconists (35%), the study, published in the journal Tobacco Induced Diseases on Wednesday, found.
Thirty-one per cent of all respondents had seen vape ads on TikTok and Instagram, 25% had seen ads on Snapchat, 24% had viewed them on Facebook (24%) and one in five had seen ads on YouTube (22%).
“Despite advertising restrictions in place in all four countries, large majorities of young people reported being exposed to e-cigarette advertising,” the research, led by the George Institute for Global Health at the University of New South Wales, concluded.
The report also found that the vaping industry is increasingly using social media influencers, with Instagram home to more than 18,000 Australian “vaping influencer” profiles solely dedicated to promoting vaping.
Source: The Guardian, 25 October 2023
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