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** 3 August 2022
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** UK
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** Liz Truss says she would end junk food taxes and scrap plans to ban BOGOF offers (#1)
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** Truss backs North Yorkshire devo deal (#2)
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** Last part of South Bristol's tobacco factory wasteland is finally being built on (#3)
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** Study: Corner shop tobacco sales halved in three years (#4)
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** International
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** Denmark: Men, especially those married with a degree, can outlive women, research claims (#5)
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** UK
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** Liz Truss says she would end junk food taxes and scrap plans to ban BOGOF offers

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** Liz Truss has said she will scrap plans to restrict the buying and advertising of junk food if she becomes prime minister.

The Conservative Party leadership frontrunner said plans to limit multi-buy deals on unhealthy food and drink and introducing new taxes would be thrown out for good after delays due to the cost-of-living crisis.

Truss told the Daily Mail: “Those taxes are over. Talking about whether or not somebody should buy a two-for-one offer? No. There is definitely enough of that.” She added Brits would prefer the government to focus on non-food related issues.

Public health minister, Maggie Throup, said: “Pausing restrictions on deals like buy one get one free will allow us to understand its impact on consumers in light of an unprecedented global economic situation.”
Other rules such as banning adverts for foods high in salt, fat and sugar on television before 9pm and paid-for online adverts were also delayed and will not come into force until January 2024.

Displaying calories on large restaurant, cafes and takeaway menus, however, were introduced in April and rules limiting the location of unhealthy foods in stores are currently set to go ahead as planned from October.

The delay in some rulings have been criticised by anti-obesity campaigners. Professor Rachel Batterham from Britain’s Royal College of Physicians said: “This is incredibly disappointing and short-sighted, especially in light of the recent World Health Organisation report showing that only in the United States is the level of obesity higher than in Europe.”

A ban on junk food advertising on Transport for London (TfL) networks has prevented almost 100,000 obesity cases, new study published on Tuesday found.

Source: The Independent, 2 August 2022
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** Truss backs North Yorkshire devo deal
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** Liz Truss has voiced her support to LGC for North Yorkshire and York’s devolution deal, in a sign she would continue the Government's devolution agenda if she becomes the next prime minister.

The foreign secretary told LGC that she “wants to empower local communities and provide them with more opportunities to have a direct input on decisions that will impact them”.

Unveiled yesterday, the deal includes a directly elected mayor for North Yorkshire and more powers for the county over transport and skills.

Ms Truss added that she “supports the devolution deal and recognises the importance of driving these initiatives across the UK to help create the right conditions for sustainable growth in local areas”.

Source: LGC, 2 August 2022
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** Last part of South Bristol's tobacco factory wasteland is finally being built on
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** Work has finally begun on the last plots of wasteland left over from the closure of South Bristol’s biggest tobacco factory - with developments that will provide jobs and homes for local people.

Housing association Curo is starting work to build 70 new affordable and work is already underway to build an 80-room nursing home on the other half of that plot, on the land next to an Aldi car park.

The developments represent the final part of the redevelopment of the huge Imperial Tobacco factory and headquarters which was built in the late 1960s and finally opened in 1974 as Wills Imperial Tobacco Factory, as the company relocated from all the factories in Bedminster and Ashton Gate to the new site on the edge of Hartcliffe. The factory closed in 1990 and was eventually demolished in 1998 to make way for the Imperial retail park, although some of the original headquarters was preserved and converted into the Lakeshore residential development.

Source: Bristol Live, 3 August 2022
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** Study: Corner shop tobacco sales halved in three years
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A team led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh have analysed sales data from almost 1,400 corner shops in England, Scotland and Wales.

The researchers compared transactions that took place during typical weeks in March, June, September and December, 2016, with those from the same periods in 2019.

Their findings show sales of tobacco products dropped by 47% over the three years. In 2016, 11% of transactions involved only tobacco, but this fell to 6% in 2019.

The proportion of sales containing a mix of tobacco products and other items also declined, falling from 14% to 9%.

While average weekly sales in corner shops fell by 16% between 2016 and 2019, sales of tobacco products fell more steeply than any other item.

In contrast, sales of some products - including e-cigarettes, alcopops and spirits - increased during the three-year period.

Despite tobacco products increasing significantly in price between 2016 and 2019, the proportion of total weekly store turnover that came from these sales fell by 8%—from 47% to 39%.

Study researcher, Professor Jamie Pearce said: "The tobacco industry has long presented tobacco products as essential to the survival of convenience stores across the country. Our new research shows that tobacco is decreasingly important to the business model of smaller retailers and undermines the arguments made by the tobacco industry. The findings emphasize the need to reduce the local availability of tobacco products in order to meet government targets for eliminating smoking over the next decade”.

Source: Medical Xpress, 2 August 2022
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** Tobacco Control - Is tobacco a driver of footfall among small retailers? A geographical analysis of tobacco purchasing using electronic point of sale data ([link removed])
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** International
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** Denmark: Men, especially those married with a degree, can outlive women, research claims
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** Men can be over 50% more likely to outlive women - especially those married with a degree, says a new study by researchers at the University of Southern Denmark. These findings contradict “received wisdom” of a natural longevity gap between the genders.

The findings are based on mortality rates among 199 populations from every continent over a period of 200 years. In developed countries, the probability of males outliving females fell until the 1970s, after which it gradually increased in all populations.

The rise and fall in sex differences in life expectancy were mainly attributed to smoking and other behavioural differences. Men are more prone to accidents and homicides in their 20s and 30s, and they tend to smoke and drink more, leading to higher cancer prevalence and death in their 60s.

According to corresponding author Dr Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, of Syddansk University, sex differences in survival are often identified by comparing life expectancy, which summarises the average length of life, rather than years lived. Instead, her team used a statistical technique called ‘outsurvival’. It measures the probability a person from an area with a high death rate will outlive a peer from a region with a low one.

Dr Bergeron-Boucher said the study, published in BMJ Open, has implications for public health interventions.
She explained: “We showed some sub-populations of males have a high probability - above 50 percent - of outliving females. “Males who are married or have a university degree tend to outlive females who are unmarried or do not have a high school diploma.

“Inequalities in lifespan between sexes are attributable to some individuals within each population and not to the whole population. Being able to better identify the characteristics of the short- lived men could more efficiently help tackle male-female inequality.”

Source: Express, 2 August 2022

See also: BMJ Open - Probability of males to outlive females: an international comparison from 1751 to 2020 ([link removed])
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