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East London council to mark World No Tobacco Day with planned operation
A top priority for the Trading Standards Service at Barking and Dagenham Council is ensuring young people are safe and that they can’t easily get hold of any type of tobacco.
This links in well with World No Tobacco Day’s (WNTD) theme for this year, which is “protecting young people from the tactics of the tobacco industry”.
According to London Tobacco Alliance: ‘In the UK, 280 children start smoking every day. The tobacco industry is focused on getting a new generation addicted to protect their profits. It spends around 8 billion dollars a year on various forms of advertising. The more exposure adolescents and teens have to tobacco advertising, the more likely they are to start smoking.’
To coincide with WNTD (Friday 31 May), Barking and Dagenham Council’s Trading Standards team ran an underage test purchasing operation on Wednesday 29 May which resulted in: 18 number of businesses visited with only one failure.
In the past year, Trading Standards have conducted 30 underage test purchasing operations for cigarettes and only two were sold, which equals a 6.7% failure rate.
Councillor Syed Ghani, Cabinet Member for Enforcement and Community Safety said: “We all know that smoking can have a negative impact on people’s health, so making sure our young people are restricted from accessing tobacco-based products is a key focus for us.
“I’m pleased to see that the majority of businesses in the borough are not selling to our young people and the test purchasing operations are making a difference.”
Source: Barking & Dagenham Council, 31 May 2024
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Scotland: Election candidates urged to back end of vape marketing aimed at young people
Scottish candidates in the upcoming General Election have been urged to back a campaign calling for the end of vape marketing targeting young people.
Speaking on the World Health Organisation’s No Tobacco Day, ASH Scotland and Asthma + Lung UK Scotland joined forces for a campaign against the marketing of flavoured, brightly coloured vapes.
Sheila Duffy, chief executive of ASH Scotland, said marketing tactics are “predatory”.
She added: “Tobacco industry promotions have lured young people into starting to use their addictive products for decades and, in recent years, the same is now happening with vapes.
“We’re urging General Election candidates to support our campaign to stop the targeting of marketing aimed at children and young people.”
Carol Mochan MSP, Scottish Labour spokeswoman for public health, said: “For too long we have seen vaping companies cashing in at the expense of children’s health.
“Children deserve the best possible start – their future well-being is more important than companies making a quick buck.
“As part of our vision for a smoke-free Scotland, Scottish Labour is committed to banning the sale of single-use vapes and stopping companies marketing them directly to children.”
Source: Daily Mail, 31 May 2024
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World No Tobacco Day 2024: protecting children from tobacco industry interference
Today (31 May) is the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). This year, WHO and public health champions from across the globe have come together to raise awareness about the harmful influences of the tobacco industry on youth. This theme of WNTD 2024 is focused on advocating for an end to the targeting of youth with harmful tobacco products.
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Podcast: Lets talk e-cigarettes - Associate Professor Andrea Villanti
Associate Professor Jamie Hartmann-Boyce and Associate Professor Nicola Lindson discuss the new evidence in e-cigarette research and interview Associate Professor Andrea Villanti, Department of Health Behaviour, Society, and Policy, Rutgers School of Public Health. Andrea Villanti’s research focuses on young adult tobacco use including predictors and patterns of use and interventions to reduce tobacco use in young adults. Dr Villanti describes their randomised controlled trial to test the effect of three exposures to eight nicotine corrective messages on beliefs about nicotine, nicotine replacement therapy, e-cigarettes and reduced nicotine content cigarettes at 3-month follow-up.
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