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** 06 April 2022
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** UK
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** Imperial Brands on track despite weak European tobacco sales (#1)
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** Windsor & Maidenhead smokers to get more targeted help (#2)
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** Dagenham restaurant fined £3k for breaking smoke-free laws (#3)
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** International
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** Zimbabwe tobacco industry eyes switch to cannabis (#4)
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** UK
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Tobacco giant Imperial Brands has said it is on track despite weak sales in continental Europe. The Gauloises and Rizla owner said gains in the UK, US and Australia have helped to offset the impact of declining sales in Germany and Spain in recent months. It comes three weeks after the company said it was in talks to offload its Russian operations, which employ around 1,000 people, to an unnamed local party.
Imperial said: “Europe’s performance has been driven by the return to pre-Covid purchasing patterns as northern Europeans resume international travel, as well as price phasing in some markets. However, price increases during the latter part of the first half will support a stronger revenue performance in the second half.”
Source: The Independent, 6 April 2022
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A low quit rate in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead has triggered more targeted support to help smokers give up cigarettes for good. Councillors and public health officials sitting on the health and wellbeing board were told the borough has the lowest smoking quit rate within the South East.
According to Charlotte Fox, public health programme officer, nearly 16,200 people in the Royal Borough are current smokers. 6,495 are female and 9,700 are male, while 77.7% are of white ethnicity. However, she said 55 people in 2019/20 set a quit date to give up smoking for good and only 40 successfully achieved this.
Ms Fox said Solutions 4 Health offers a stop smoking service, which offers nicotine replacement therapy, in other local authorities in Berkshire except for the Royal Borough. They will be looking at costs to introduce this service in the borough.
Source: Windsor Observer, 5 April 2022
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A Dagenham restaurant owner has been ordered to pay more than £3,000 for breaching smoke-free laws during a “lock-in party” held amid Covid restrictions. Barking and Dagenham Council says a crowd of people were found drinking and smoking inside Restaurant La Maria by enforcement officers in the early hours of October 17, 2020.
Since July 2007, it has been illegal to smoke in any pub, restaurant or nightclub and most workplaces and work vehicles. Mr Olteanu did not attend a hearing at Barkingside Magistrates Court last month and was prosecuted in his absence under Section 8 of the Health Act 2006 for failing to prevent smoking in a smoke-free premises.
Cllr Margaret Mullane, cabinet member for enforcement and community safety, said: "It’s pretty incredible that almost 15 years on since the introduction of the smoking ban, we are still taking legal action against businesses and business owners who think the law doesn’t apply to them.
"To be clear, it’s illegal to smoke in an enclosed public space and business owners are responsible for making sure smoking doesn’t take place inside their premises, regardless of what time it is."
Source: Barking and Dagenham Post, 5 April 2022
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** International
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Zimbabwe’s tobacco industry is looking to cannabis as a major revenue source, with anti-tobacco sentiment expected to dampen demand for one of the country’s biggest exports. Anticipated demand for cannabis is projected to continue to grow while tobacco output globally may decline 15% by 2030, according to Meanwell Gudu, the chief executive officer of Zimbabwe’s Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board.
Tobacco earned the country $819 million (£626 million) in revenue last year. Farming cannabis for medical use in Zimbabwe was first legalised in 2019.
Source: Bloomberg News, 5 April 2022
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