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** 1 December 2023
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** UK
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** Concern over vape display near sweets - York council (#1)
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** International
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** Casino workers seethe as smoking ban bill is delayed yet again in New Jersey Legislature (#2)
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** Link of the week
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** Podcast: Let’s talk e-cigarettes - Eve Taylor (#3)
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** Petition: Put our People over Profit - Stop the Repeal of the Smokefree Legislation (#4)
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** Cancer Research UK - Longer, better lives: A manifesto for cancer research and care (#5)
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** UK
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** Concern over vape display near sweets - York council
Sweet flavoured vapes are being marketed on the confectionery aisle of B&M in York.
The council said its trading standards team would visit the Foss Island store to discuss the position of the products.
Recent figures show the number of 11-17 year old children using vapes in the past three years has tripled.
Cllr Jenny Kent, executive member for environment and climate emergency, said: “It’s hard to see how anyone thinks it’s ok to market vapes to children near the sweet aisle, whether it is technically legal or not."
According the Local Democracy Reporting Service, the City of York Council’s trading standards team plan to talk to the retailer about how the products are being sold.
Cllr Bob Webb, executive member for children, young people and education, said it was "concerning to see products specifically for adults marketed in this way".
Mr Webb added: “The health and wellbeing of the young people of York is one of our top priorities."
A government consultation on proposals to restrict the flavours and descriptions of vapes closes on 6 December. Regulation of packaging, presentation and sale of disposable vapes are also being considered.
A spokesperson for Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) said the government should "prohibit child-friendly branding, and put products out of sight and out of reach in shops".
Source: BBC News, 1 December 2023
See also: Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation ([link removed])
You can respond to the government consultation ([link removed]) , either as an individual or work with leaders in your organisation to submit an organisational response. The consultation closes on 11.59pm 6th December.
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** International
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** Casino workers seethe as smoking ban bill is delayed yet again in New Jersey Legislature
A bill to end smoking in Atlantic City's casinos that appeared headed for its first vote Thursday was delayed yet again when Democratic lawmakers said they did not have enough votes to advance it.
They also said they would listen to alternatives proposed by the casino industry including enclosed smoking rooms in which no employee would be forced to work.
“It's incredible that we're here begging again to have the same thing everyone else has,” said Lamont White, a dealer at the Borgata and a leader of the drive to end smoking in Atlantic City's nine casinos.
“We have to endure hours on the job with secondhand smoke in our faces without the ability to turn away,” added Nicole Vitola, another Borgata dealer active in the anti-smoking effort.
New Jersey's law banning smoking in public businesses specifically exempts Atlantic City's casinos.
Sen. Richard Codey, a Democrat who previously served as governor, said the compromise was enacted under his tenure as the state's top elected official as the price for getting a smoking ban for the rest of the state through the Legislature.
“It never should have happened that way,” he said Thursday. “It's time.”
Support for a casino smoking ban is widespread among New Jersey lawmakers, with a bipartisan majority in both chambers, and Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has repeatedly said he will sign it if passed.
The bill would close a loophole in the state’s 2006 indoor smoking law. That measure was written specifically to exempt casinos from bans on smoking indoors. Currently, smoking is permitted on 25% of a casino floor in Atlantic City.
The casino industry opposes a smoking ban, saying it would lose customers and revenue if smoking were banned while still being allowed in casinos in nearby states.
But Las Vegas-based C3 Gaming says many casinos elsewhere that have banned smoking are thriving financially, including casinos near Washington, D.C., and Boston, and in Maryland.
Source: The Independent, 30 November 2023
See also: ASH Factsheet – Secondhand Smoke ([link removed])
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** Link of the week
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** Podcast: Let’s talk e-cigarettes - Eve Taylor
Associate Professor Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Dr Nicola Lindson discuss the new evidence in e-cigarette research and interview Eve Taylor who is working on a PhD in the Nicotine Research Group at King's College London. Eve also works as a research assistant on projects including the International Tobacco Control Project and the Public Health England e-cigarette evidence reviews.
They interviewed Taylor at the E-Cigarette Summit on the 16th November, where they discussed packaging regulations and the role that cigarette packaging and e-cigarette packaging have on the appeal to young people and adults. Taylor also talks about the findings from the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project and Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) survey data.
See also: ASH - Use of e-cigarettes among young people in Great Britain ([link removed])
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** Petition: Put our People over Profit - Stop the Repeal of the Smokefree Legislation
This week the New Zealand government has repealed its Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products Amendment Act, which included policies such as; the denicotisation of cigarettes, the reduction of tobacco outlets from 6000 to 600, and the implementation of a smokefree generation policy (the same as in the UK).
A petition has been launched to call on the New Zealand Government to stop the repeal of the Smokefree Environments and Regulated Products (Smoked Tobacco) Amendment Act and start prioritising people over profit. Currently, 5,000 New Zealanders die from the harms of tobacco-related illnesses every year.
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** Cancer Research UK - Longer, better lives: A manifesto for cancer research and care
This week Cancer Research UK (CRUK) released their manifesto for cancer research and care, which sets out measures and commitments that can help prevent 20,000 cancer deaths every year, by 2040.
CRUK released this manifesto ahead of the general election next year with the ambition that, if adopted by the next government, their recommendations “would ensure the UK is amongst the best in the world for cancer survival by 2035.”
The manifesto includes their recommendation on smoking legislation; "within a year of the general election, the UK Government should have raised the age of sale of tobacco products and started to implement a sufficiently funded programme of measures to help people who smoke quit, with the aim of making England smokefree and preventing around 18,200 cancer cases in England by 2040."
Michelle Mitchell OBE, Chief Executive of CRUK stated “We believe this is a realistic ambition. Now is the time to act and build on the success of previous decades where we’ve seen a doubling of cancer survival in the last 40 years. Now is the time to go further and faster.”
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