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Subject ASH Daily News for 21 May 2021
Date May 21, 2021 12:41 PM
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** 21 May 2021
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** UK
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** Interview with Deborah Arnott on new RCP smoking report (#1)
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** Project sees seven million illegal cigarettes removed from West Yorkshire's streets (#2)
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** 'Levelling up' must be more targeted, say peers (#3)
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** International
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** Study: Tobacco smoke exposure in utero and during early childhood can affect children's lung function (#4)
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** Study: Most US teen vapers would have been smokers (#5)
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** Links of the Week
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** Seminar: LGBTQ+ and Cancer Care (#6)
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** Job Opportunity: Head of Alcohol Policy with Fresh and Balance (#7)
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** UK
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** On Wednesday 20th May the Chief Executive of ASH Deborah Arnott spoke to Talk Radio about the launch of the Royal College of Physician’s report, published yesterday, calling for opt-out smoking cessation support for all patients in hospitals. Deborah addressed some of the arguments against the opt-out policy and argued that the tobacco industry should be made to pay for the harms caused by smoking. You can watch the interview (from 2:09:22-2:14:55) below.

Source: talkRADIO, 20 May 2021
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** Trading standards officers in West Yorkshire have revealed that up to 7 million illicit cigarettes and two and a half tonnes of illicit hand-rolling tobacco have been removed from the streets of West Yorkshire following the sentencing of a Bradford store manager. The store manager was sentenced on the 18th of May 2021 to 4 months in prison for selling the tobacco in his store.

The store manager admitted 13 offences relating to selling goods with false trademarks, supplying cigarettes without health warnings, and selling cigarettes in breach of packaging regulations. He was also ordered to do 200 hours unpaid work and up to 25 rehabilitation activity days.

West Yorkshire Trading Standards said the Tackling Illicit Tobacco for Better Health Programme, funded by local councils across West Yorkshire, was helping people to stop tobacco use for good by educating the public and by investigating traders who supplied cheap and illicit tobacco. Training sessions with thousands of members of the public and hundreds of frontline professionals have been delivered to raise awareness about the dangers and wider criminality associated with the supply of illicit tobacco.


Source: The Telegraph & Argus, 19 May 2021
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** Peers from the House of Lords’ Public Services Committee have said that the Prime Minister’s ‘levelling up’ plans must be more targeted to prevent deprived areas being “short-changed’’. The committee said that the Government’s white paper on levelling up must be released urgently to avoid suggestions that money is being channelled into Conservative seats. It also said that inequality would grow if money for the NHS, schools, and councils was not protected.

Earlier this week, the Government announced the latest raft of ‘levelling up’ schemes including an £18m extension to its Opportunity Areas programme and moving more civil servants out of Whitehall to work in different towns and cities. But Labour peer Baroness Armstrong, who chairs the committee, said that it was still “unclear exactly what the government wants to level up, how much its strategy will cost, how long it will take and how it plans to achieve its goals”.

The committee also called on the Government to work with local services and their users to set targets for improving indicators of disadvantage like life expectancy, employment, literacy, and numeracy of children starting school, and the number of entrants to higher education.

Source: BBC News, 20 May 2021
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** A study has found that regular exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy and in a childhood is associated with decreased childhood lung function. The researchers found that cumulative tobacco smoke exposure reflected by increased blood cotinine levels during pregnancy and childhood is associated with decreased lung function at six years of age. They found that this decrease was evident with even minimal exposure to smoking.

The research included 476 mother-child pairs and recruited non-smoking women at 10-18 gestational weeks. The researchers gave participants in the study questionnaires on active smoking and household smoking during pregnancy at one, three, and six years after delivery. They then measured blood cotinine levels at 10-18 and 32-38 gestational weeks and at ages 1, 3 and 6 years. They measured the children’s lung function at aged six using new technology that uses sound waves to measure lung function.

They found that 65 mothers (14%) reported active smoking and 103 (22%) reported other household smoking on at least one occasion during the study. Mothers’ active smoking and household smoking were associated with increased cotinine levels in the mother during pregnancy and in their children. The strongest effects were observed with cumulative smoke exposure from pregnancy to childhood together.

Source: News Medical, 20 May 2021
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** A new study suggests that most US teens who use e-cigarettes would have likely become cigarette smokers if vaping products did not exist. The study authors said that e-cigarettes can be an important tool for tobacco harm reduction and that their findings provide evidence against claims that e-cigarettes have acted as a “gateway’’ towards smoking.

The study, conducted by researchers from Brown University and Harvard University, used data from 12th-graders taken from the “Monitoring the Future’’ report, a survey conducted by the National Institute on Drug Abuse that measures different forms of drug use by adolescents across the US.

The study worked by using a model which had predicted smoking prevalence accurately before the availability of e-cigarettes. Once e-cigarettes became widely available, researchers found that their model increasingly overestimated smoking prevalence, suggesting that many of the young people who would have smoked had instead used e-cigarettes.

Source: Vapor Voice, 20 May 2021
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** Link of the Week
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NHS in Greater Manchester is hosting a seminar on Friday 28th May 13.30-14.15 on LGBTQ+ and Cancer Care as part of its Virtual Cancer week. The seminar will feature an interactive panel consisting of expert speakers. The session will discuss:
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** Screening barriers
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** Use of appropriate language
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** Challenges throughout the patient's cancer pathway
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Fresh and Balance is looking for a new Head of Alcohol Policy. The successful candidate will become the key figure-head for the Balance brand and programme lead for all alcohol-related activity. They will join a multi award winning North-East England based team with a national and international reputation as a leader in delivering tobacco control and alcohol harm reduction programmes. Applications for the post close on 18th June 2021 and you can apply below.
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