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** 26 July 2021
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** UK
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** Marlboro maker Philip Morris claims it could stop selling cigarettes in UK (#1)
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** Cigarette butts and rubbish dropped see 15 people in Devon fined (#2)
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** Dismay at failure to align ICS footprints with council boundaries (#3)
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** International
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** Cigarette blamed for French fire that cut electricity to Morocco (#4)
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** UK
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** Philip Morris International (PMI) chief executive Jacek Olczak has said that the company could stop selling cigarettes in the UK in 10 years’ time. Olczak also said that "strong regulation" was needed to "help solve the problem of cigarette smoking once and for all".
However, public health charity ASH responded by pointing out that PMI has made similar comments before whilst maintaining its sale of cigarettes. "Philip Morris has claimed that it wants to see the end of smoking for years now, but how can such claims be taken seriously from a company which sells more than one in 10 cigarettes smoked worldwide?" ASH chief executive Deborah Arnott told the BBC.
She stressed that ending smoking by 2030 must be a priority for the government. "Smoking is likely to have killed more people than Covid-19 last year in the UK," she added. "Fine words from Philip Morris are not the solution - funding is needed for government-backed behaviour change campaigns to discourage smoking, and support to help smokers quit."
Source: BBC, 26 July 2021
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** More than a dozen people have been fined and given criminal records after dropping cigarette litter in Devon. The offenders were taken to court by the city council after failing to pay £100 penalty notices and magistrates in Plymouth subsequently handed out fines of £454 to 12 of the offenders.
A Plymouth City Council spokesperson said that 15 people were spotted dropping or leaving litter by a council environmental enforcement officer. Most dropped cigarettes in Plymouth city centre in December but only one of the 15 attended court to admit an offence. All now have criminal records.
Source: ITV, 26 July 2021
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** Local government figures in areas where health secretary Sajid Javid has decided not to make integrated care partnerships coterminous with upper tier authority boundaries have expressed outcry that the boundaries have not been matched up.
The Department of Health and Social Care yesterday (25th July) announced that only six ICSs would have their boundaries changed to match upper tier authorities, much fewer than expected under plans when Matt Hancock was in Government. The decision not to change boundaries in Suffolk, Essex, and Surrey has sparked disappointment in local government circles in those areas.
A senior local government source based in Suffolk told LGC: “If it was coterminous it would be so much easier from a local authority point of view,” they said. “Every meeting during the pandemic has involved two CCGs... and each has had slightly different approaches and policies at different times.”
Tim Oliver, leader of Surrey County Council, told LGC of the decision to retain Frimley integrated care system despite its covering residents in Hampshire, Surrey, Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire: “We were disappointed with the decision. We very much endorsed the approach taken in the health and care bill and the white paper about coterminosity of upper tier authorities and ICSs because this is all about integrating the delivery of health and social care, and that is made more complicated to do when you have cross boundary ICSs.”
Source: LGC, 23 July 2021
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** International
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** A cigarette end thrown out of a car on a motorway in southwest France is believed to have caused a fire that has ravaged 2,100 acres of forest and knocked out electricity for hundreds of thousands of homes in Spain and as far away as Portugal and Morocco.
The fire, which was still burning yesterday afternoon, began at lunchtime on Saturday (24 July) on the central reservation of the A61 between Carcassone and Narbonne and required more than 800 firefighters to tackle it, damaging the roof of a house and a car. A large part of the fire was partially stabilised on Saturday night and officials expected to bring the remainder under control by the end of yesterday.
Seven amphibious Canadair aircraft, two Dash aeroplanes and a water bomber helicopter were used to put out the flames. The Spanish electricity network administrator blamed the amphibious planes and an incident with a high tension power line for blackouts across the Iberian peninsula, which saw interconnected electricity systems between France and Spain disconnected. Spain’s system temporarily lost the equivalent of two nuclear power stations whilst Portugal lost power and Spain had to switch off its connection with Morocco.
Source: The Times, 25 July 2021
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