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** 05 February 2021
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** UK
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Rugby League bosses to have say in Government review of betting sponsorship (#1)
West Midlands: Walsall shopkeeper who sold illegal cigarettes loses licence (#2)
North West: Illicit tobacco sales could cost Bolton shops their license (#3)
** International
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France: Macron aims to tackle tobacco and alcohol in 10-year cancer plan (#4)
Female breast cancer surpasses lung as the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide (#5)
** Link of the Week
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Update: The King's Fund - Spending on Public Health (#6)
** UK
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Rugby League bosses will respond to the Government’s review into sports sponsorship by betting companies. Though Rugby League officials have not publicly revealed their response, ''Betfred have been and continue to be an excellent partner to the Super League’’.
The review is part of a major shake-up of sports advertising being considered by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport which could see clubs made to remove gambling logos from players’ shirts.
The Super League is sponsored by Betfred for over £1 million a year, with the betting company also sponsoring the Championship, League One, and the Women’s Super League. Another betting company, Coral, was the Challenge Cup sponsor until the end of 2020.
Any potential ban on betting sponsorship is familiar territory for Rugby League, which has already seen a ban on tobacco advertising introduced in 2013.
Source: St Helens Reporter, 4 February 2021
Editorial note
At this time of uncertainty articles are being included in Daily News if they cover issues likely to have an impact on tobacco control or smoking cessation even if they are not specifically mentioned.
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A Walsall shopkeeper has lost his premises license, required to sell alcohol, after selling illicit cigarettes on four different occasions in 2019 and 2020. Licensing chiefs handed down the verdict at a hearing on Wednesday February 3^rd following a review called by Walsall Trading Standards and backed by West Midlands Police , West Midlands Fire Service, and the town’s public health teams.
Source: Birmingham Mail, 4 February 2021
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Seven shop owners in Bolton will appear before licensing chiefs and face losing their right to operate their businesses after an undercover investigation caught them selling illicit tobacco products. The shop owners were caught selling tobacco products that were not in plain packaging and suspected counterfeit.
The verdict is somewhat unusual as the loss of the license required to sell alcohol is not usually handed out in illicit tobacco cases.
Source: The Bolton News, 2 February 2021
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French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a new 10-year strategy to fight cancer which aims for the generation turning 20 in 2030 to be the first tobacco-free generation. The strategy also promises to do more to address the dangers of alcohol.
Macron told the French Cancer National Institute, a public entity coordinating scientific research on cancer, that the government would dedicate 1.7 billion euros to the cause over the next five years, an increase of 20% on the 2016-2021 period.
The strategy aims to reduce the number of new avoidable cancer cases from 150,000 to fewer than 100,000 in ten years and to reduce the mortality of the seven most lethal cancers. Macron noted that almost half of avoidable cancer cases – 70,000 – are currently caused by tobacco.
Macron stressed that cigarette prices would continue to increase and there would be more smoke-free areas as part of the effort.
Source: Reuters, 4 February 2021
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A new collaborative report from the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has shown that breast cancer has overtaken lung cancer as the most commonly diagnosed cancer for the first time.
The report found that lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death causing an estimated 1.8 million deaths globally and that around two-thirds of these are attributable to smoking. Cancer rates are rising more generally, with an estimated 28.4 million new cancer cases projected to occur in 2040, a 47% rise from 2020 globally.
The report found substantial differences between countries undergoing social and economic transition, deemed ‘transitioning’, and those countries classified as ‘transitioned’. Transitioning countries are those classified as low or medium on the Human Deprivation Index (HDI) whilst transitioned countries are those classified as high or very high HDI. There are higher death rates of breast cancer among women in transitioning countries than transitioned countries (15 versus 12.8 per 100,000) even though there are substantially lower incidence rates in transitioning countries (29.7 versus 55.9 per 100,000). Lung cancer rates are 3 to 4 times higher in transitioned countries, but this pattern is quickly changing as 80% of smokers live in low and middle-income countries.
Breast cancer rates have increased as dramatic changes in lifestyle and the built environment have impacted on the prevalence of breast cancer risk factors like excess body weight, physical inactivity, alcohol consumption, postponement of childbearing, fewer childbirths, and less breastfeeding, particularly in transitioning countries. The report is based on data collected in the years prior to COVID-19, so findings do not reflect the impact of COVID-19.
Source: Medical Xpress, 4 February 2021
See also: CA - Global cancer statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries ([link removed])
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** Link of the Week
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The King's Fund has produced a useful update on how local authorities have spent public health funding since 2013.
The update can be found here: The King's Fund - NHS in a nutshell: Spending on Public Health ([link removed])
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