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** 1 June 2022
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** UK
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** North East campaigners urge smokers to give up to help save the planet (#1)
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** New financial incentive scheme launched to support young people to quit smoking (#2)
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** Crackdown on illegal cigarettes as Nottingham marks ‘No Tobacco Day’ (#3)
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** International
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** Mexico totally bans sales of e-cigarettes (#4)
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** Australia plans crackdown on smoking and vaping (#5)
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** UK
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** Campaigners are warning that tobacco is harming the beaches and environment of the North East. In the region, 2.9 million cigarettes are consumed each year, which results in around 158 tonnes of waste, and it is estimated that 66 tonnes of that end up as litter.
The problem of pollution caused by cigarettes was being highlighted for this year’s World No Tobacco Day (31 May) by the World Health Organisation, the global campaign aiming to draw attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes.
Ailsa Rutter OBE, Director of Fresh and Balance said: "Most people know smoking kills - but too rarely do we ever stop to think about how tobacco is polluting our world globally, and here in the North East where we have a fantastic coastline. One single filter puts plastic into the marine environment, while cigarette filters also contain a cocktail of harmful chemical ingredients including arsenic, lead and nicotine that pollute our soil, waterways and seas, harming wildlife.”
She asserts it is "one more reason to quit smoking and to make tobacco companies pay for the pollution they cause."
Source: ITV News, 1 June 2022
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Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council has partnered with Barnsley College to launch a new pilot scheme, offering financial incentives to support young people to quit smoking. Running until early next year, the scheme aims to support students at Barnsley College who are currently smoking to quit at targeted college sites.
This new scheme, which was made possible through the council’s COVID-19 recovery fund, will work alongside and strengthen existing specialist support available to students through Barnsley College’s smoking cessation advisors.
Their team works with NHS Yorkshire Smokefree to offer a twelve-week quit program to support students to go smoke-free, including nicotine replacement therapy. Barnsley College students could receive £35 in Barnsley Gift Cards for successfully quitting for twelve weeks. Carbon monoxide monitoring will validate these continued quits, which is already offered weekly to students by the college’s smoking advisors.
Councillor Caroline Makinson, Cabinet Spokesperson for Public Health and Communities: “In Barnsley, we want everyone to have the best possible chance of enjoying life in good health. Studies have shown that using financial incentives is an effective way to help people quit and stay quit, even after the incentives end.”
Source: Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council, 31 May 2022
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More than 217,000 illegal cigarettes have been seized in Nottingham in the last two years as part of the city’s commitment to tackling the sale of illegal tobacco. Nottingham City Trading Standards teamed up with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to launch Operation CeCe in 2020.
The total is being announced as part of World No Tobacco Day (31 May).
Nottingham City Council last month published its Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy that identified smoking and tobacco control as a key priority for improving healthy life expectancy in the city. Councillor Neghat Khan, Portfolio Holder for Neighbourhoods, Safety and Inclusion in Nottingham said he was “pleased with the progress [...] in its ongoing crackdown on illegal tobacco.”
Alongside disrupting illicit trade, the City Council is encouraging people to take steps to stop smoking. The Stub it! service is available to anyone aged 16 or over who lives in Nottingham city, offering a 12-week personalised program with trained stop smoking advisors.
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Source: My Nottingham News, 31 May 2022
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** Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador signed a decree Tuesday outlawing the sale of e-cigarettes. Mexico had already banned the import and export of e-cigarettes and their vaping liquid refills in October. These recent developments follow the use of consumer protection and other laws to discourage sales in the country.
According to government estimates, at least 5 million Mexicans have tried vaping at least once. Speaking about the move, assistant Health Secretary Hugo López Gatell said claims that e-cigarettes are safer than smoking combustible tobacco were “a big lie”.
Source: Daily Mail, 31 May 2022
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A new crackdown on smoking and vaping is expected in Australia amid growing concerns about e-cigarette use among young people.
New legislation is expected to require shops to apply for a licence to sell cigarettes or vapes. Smoking would also be outlawed in outdoor markets and school car parks, and children and drinkers will be banned from smoking areas in pubs and clubs. Retail workers under 18 would also be prohibited from selling tobacco, and cigarette machines would be hidden behind the bar in pubs and clubs, according to new proposals.
Queensland's health minister Yvette D'Ath’s proposals do not follow the New Zealand style blanket ban for future generations despite new research showing most Australians back a total ban on cigarette sales, with just 16.1% believing that would be 'a bad thing'. Over half (50.8%), supported a phase-out, and an overwhelming majority (61.8%) said it should happen within the next decade.
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Source: Daily Mail, 1 June 2022
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