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** 27 September 2021
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** UK
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** Scots' smoking habit means nation paid more to UK Treasury than anywhere else (#1)
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** Smoking ban in Scottish jails hailed a success by scientists (#2)
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** International
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** USA: Graphic warning labels on cigarettes could have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths (#3)
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** Indonesia: Jakarta moves to take down cigarette ads in latest tobacco control campaign (#4)
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** UK
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New research has found that Scotland pays more in tobacco duties than any other part of the UK. The research, conducted by legal experts Wright Hassall, found that the UK Treasury has collected a total of £1223 million from Scottish smokers. This was part of £9693 collected in the UK in total by the Treasury, with £1148 million from the south east of England and £1111m from the north west of England the next highest figures.

Responding to the figures, ASH Scotland chief executive Sheila Duffy said: “Scotland has a legacy of harms from our high smoking rates in the past. But we also have a strong track record of taking action to reduce smoking rates. In the past few years that action has stalled, and as we start to emerge from a pandemic that has seen many smokers use more tobacco or put back their attempts to quit, it is vital that support is offered again to smokers who want to quit.”

Figures also show that there is a widening gap between rich and poor, with the difference between smoking prevalence in the most deprived and least deprived areas increasing to 26% from the lowest ever figure of 18% in 2017. It has been calculated that if the smoking rate in the 20% most deprived areas of Scotland fell by just 1% (from 32% to 31%), Scotland’s poorest communities would save around £14m a year in tobacco costs.

According to the latest figures, 17% of adults in Scotland are current smokers (19% of men and 16% of women). An average of 13,300 children aged 11 to 15 start smoking each year in Scotland and 14.6% of pregnant women in Scotland smoke at the time of their first antenatal appointment. Each year there are 9360 smoking-attributable deaths, accounting for 16% of all Scottish deaths, and nearly 100,000 smoking-related hospital admissions.

Source: The National, 26 September 2021
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A landmark new study has found that the 2018 rule banning smoking in Scottish jails has been a success with prison inmates in Scotland adjusting well and reduced numbers of medical treatments. Academics at Glasgow University said the report, part of the ‘Tobacco In Prisons’ research project, found jails did not see a rise in mental health medication after the ban.

The study looked at more than 44,000 prisoners between 2014 and 2019. The 2018 ban was complemented by a 40% increase in nicotine replacement therapy after the ban. Deborah Arnott, Chief Executive of ASH, said “smoke-free prisons are a success story” whilst the Scottish Prison Service said “there was trepidation over how prisoners would fare but the results have been good.”

Source: Daily Record, 26 September 2021
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** International
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** A new analysis by researchers at the University of Michigan and colleagues from the Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network Lung Group has found that adding warning labels with graphic depictions of the negative health consequences of smoking when such labels were originally planned in USA in 2012 could have averted thousands of smoking-related deaths.

The research found that if the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) does require tobacco companies to include the graphic warning labels on cigarette packages in October 2022 as it is expected to do, then between 275,000 and 794,000 smoking-attributable deaths could be averted by 2100 and between 4 million and 11.6 million life-years could be gained during that period. The FDA had planned to implement graphic warning labels nine years ago but has been entangled in litigation with the tobacco industry over the issue.

If the warnings had been implemented in 2012, researchers estimate about 365,000 to 1,060,000 deaths might have been prevented, and 5.7 million to 16.6 million life-years could have been gained, roughly 40% higher. More than 120 countries have required graphic health warnings on cigarette packs and saved lives by doing so, said one of the study's authors.


Source: Medical Xpress, 24 September 2021
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** The Jakarta Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) has begun taking down cigarette advertisements across Jakarta following new regulations signed by Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan banning the display of indoor and outdoor cigarette advertisements and products in buildings such as minimarkets and shopping centres and banning the display of cigarette products in stores.

The head of East Jakarta Satpol PP Budhy Novian said that his team had removed 22 cigarette billboards from public displays in East Jakarta since starting inspections whilst head of Central Jakarta Satpol PP Bernard Tambunan said his team had removed cigarette advertisements in 45 different locations around Central Jakarta.

The regulation passed in June also calls for building managers to install "no smoking" signs at every entrance and accessible location throughout their buildings as well as ensuring that non-smoking areas are kept smokefree. The regulation extends previous rules from 2015, which banned outdoor cigarette advertisements in the city. While the new regulation did not outline any punishment for violators, the Jakarta administration said it was preparing additional rules that would punish the management of any establishments that failed to observe the ban.


Source: The Jakarta Post, 27 September 2021
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