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Quit smoking and save £2,000 a year during cost-of-living crisis
Smokers who quit this Stoptober stand to save up to £2,000 a year to help with the cost-of-living crisis – as well as reaping the health benefits. Latest statistics by ASH show there are almost 70,000 adult smokers in Cornwall who puff their way through 640,000 cigarettes a day. This costs each of them £1,944 a year on average, or around £37 a week. Cigarettes also create 34 tons of waste a year, of which almost half – 14 tons – is street litter.
Dr Ruth Goldstein, public health consultant and deputy director of public health at Cornwall Council, said: “It’s never too late to quit and stopping smoking brings immediate benefits to health, including for people with an existing smoking-related disease. Plus, if you can make it to 28 days smoke-free, research suggests you’re five times more likely to go on and quit for good. Smoking increases anxiety and tension and quitting is proven to boost your mental health and wellbeing. It can improve mood and help relieve stress, anxiety and depression. With our finances squeezed more than ever before, this Stoptober would seem like the perfect time to ditch the cigarettes and save a lot of money.”
Cllr Dr Andy Virr, portfolio holder for adults and public health and Emergency Department consultant at the Royal Cornwall Hospital, added: “Smoking causes complete devastation to people’s lives and the lives of their families and loved ones. This is something I see all the time in my job. So I can’t stress enough how important it is for all the smokers out there to quit. We know the best way to do this is with specialist support and medication, or e-cigarettes if you are over 18. GPs and pharmacists can also give advice and tips to help smokers quit. There is a huge amount of support available to help you, so don’t put it off any longer and join the thousands of others across the country who will be stubbing out their habit for Stoptober.”
Source: News Anyway, 4 October 2022
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LGC Exclusive: There is “undoubtedly” fat to be trimmed from councils, minister says
There is “undoubtedly” fat to be trimmed from councils, the local government minister has told LGC, indicating that local government will not be immune from Whitehall spending cuts.
At a fringe event at the Conservative Party conference LGC asked Paul Scully (Con) about departmental spending priorities after communities secretary Simon Clarke wrote in the Times that Whitehall departments would have to “trim the fat” and referred to the country’s “very large welfare state”.
Yesterday morning on the BBC Radio 4 Today show the chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng suggested that there will be real terms public spending cuts, with government sticking to spending allocations made before inflation rose so steeply.
Last week Leicestershire CC's leader, Nick Rushton (Con), told LGC that the council could not make any efficiency savings. “There is no low hanging fruit,” he said, “we will have to cut meat from the bone.”
However, yesterday Mr Scully was said there were things that could be "trimmed" from local government: “Every department has received a letter from the chancellor telling them to make efficiency savings. To be fair, the spending review provided a generous settlement [for councils]. So there is fat to be trimmed.”
Source: LGC, 3 October 2022
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Darlington shops stashing 46,000 illegal tabs, rolling tobacco and vapes found by sniffer dogs
Darlington shops stashing 46,000 illegal tabs, rolling tobacco and vapes found by sniffer dogs.
A haul of illegal tobacco has been seized from shops across Darlington with the help of three specially trained police pups.
The raids took place as part of Operation CeCe, a National Trading Standards initiative in partnership with HM Revenue & Customs to tackle illegal tobacco. More than 46,000 cigarettes, 14.5kg of rolling tobacco and 218 illegal vapes were seized from shops in a single day of action.
Six stores were searched by a trading standards team from Darlington Council, who were assisted by Durham Police and three tobacco detection dogs during the operation, which took place on September 27. The shops were searched with help from tobacco detection dogs Bran, Cooper, and Yoyo from BWY Canine Ltd.
Source: Teesside Live, 3 October 2022
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US: Judge rules tobacco company ITG is liable for Florida tobacco settlement payments
Cigarette manufacturer ITG Brands, part of the Imperial Brands group, assumed liability for tobacco settlement payments to the state of Florida when it acquired four brands from Reynolds American in 2015, a Delaware judge has ruled.
Vice Chancellor Lori Will ruled Friday that, as a result, ITG must compensate Reynolds American for losses due, granting summary judgment in favour of Reynolds. Reynolds sold the Kool, Winston, Salem and Maverick brands to ITG in 2014 to gain federal regulators' approval of its acquisition of Lorillard Inc. Before the sale closed, Reynolds American affiliate R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. was making payments under a pre-existing settlement agreement with Florida for reimbursement of smoking-related health care costs. After closing, Reynolds stopped making payments for the four brands it no longer owned.
The asset purchase agreement required ITG to use reasonable best efforts to join the Florida settlement and make annual payments to Florida for sales of the brands it acquired from Reynolds. ITG has yet to join the settlement agreement with Florida or make any payments.
Florida sued Reynolds and ITG and obtained a judgment requiring Reynolds to continue making payments based on ITG’s brands, unless and until ITG joined the Florida settlement agreement. Last year, Reynolds asked ITG to compensate Reynolds Tobacco for what it had paid and will pay due to the Florida judgment, but ITG refused. In subsequent litigation, ITG argued unsuccessfully that it had fulfilled its reasonable best efforts obligation and was not required to indemnify Reynolds for the payment liability to Florida.
Source: The Independent, 4 October 2022
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