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** 17 February 2023
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** UK
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** Video: Advertising Standards Agency rebukes an e-cigarette firm over claims its “vape clinic” could help people quit smoking (#1)
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** Latest drug and alcohol funding criticised as “not sustainable” (#2)
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** International
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** Australia: Why partners could hamper smokers' attempts to quit (#3)
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** Link of the week
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** Comment: Nicotine e-cigarettes as a tool for smoking cessation (#4)
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** UK
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** Video: Advertising Standards Agency rebukes an e-cigarette firm over claims its “vape clinic” could help people quit smoking
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** Reporting for Channel 4 News, Amelia Jenne, details the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) has “rebuked an e-cigarette firm over claims its so-called ‘vape clinic’ could help people quit smoking”.
Jenne reports, “campaigners hope will be the start of a push-back against aggressive marketing tactics [by e-cigarette companies]”.
Source: Channel 4 News, 15 February 2023
Editorial note: The ASA assessment applies to claims made about this particular vaping product as those products which do not have a licence as a medicine cannot make medicinal claims. It does not apply to health professionals communicating the evidence about e-cigarettes as a category of products shown to help people stop smoking. The National Institute for Health Care and Excellence (NICE) recommends ([link removed]) that adult smokers are told about e-cigarettes as a quitting aid alongside licenced pharmacotherapy such as NRT. The most recent review of e-cigarettes commissioned by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities ([link removed]) concluded e-cigarettes, “in the short and medium term, vaping poses a small fraction of the risks of smoking”. The most recent Cochrane
Review ([link removed]) on e-cigarettes for smoking cessation concluded e-cigarettes are more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation.
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** Latest drug and alcohol funding criticised as “not sustainable”
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The £421m in funding allocated to local authorities to improve drug and alcohol treatment is “less than the government took out of the public health grant in cuts”, the president of the Association of Directors of Public Health has said.
Yesterday, the Department of Health & Social Care announced that 151 local authorities will be allocated £421m in funding through to 2025 to increase the number of drug and alcohol treatment places.
However, Jim McManus, who is also executive director of public health at Hertfordshire CC, told LGC that while the funding is welcome, the government is now expecting public health departments to increase placements over a period of three years, with less money than has been cut from their budgets over the past five. “It’s not sustainable,” Mr McManus said. He also criticised the delay in the publication of the public health grant allocations, which has been putting pressure on public health departments. “There is good evidence that if you do not fund public health, it creates a burden on the NHS,” McManus added, “there is no good reason for this delay”.
On the announcement of the additional funding for local authorities’ drugs and alcohol treatment, health and social care secretary, Steve Barclay said: “Drug misuse has a massive cost to society – more than 3,000 people died as a result of drug misuse in 2021. This funding will help us to build a much improved treatment and recovery service which will continue to save lives, improve the health and wellbeing of people across the country, and reduce pressure on the NHS by diverting people from addiction to recovery.”
Source: LGC, 16 February 2023
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** International
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** Australia: Why partners could hamper smokers' attempts to quit
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** People looking to give up cigarettes are much more likely to succeed if they don't live with other smokers, a new Australian study suggests.
The study, conducted by researchers at The Monash Centre for Health Economics and the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, predicted the number of people smoking would fall by 43% across a ten-year period when smokers lived with non-smokers.
When people lived alone, the proportion of smokers would decrease by 26% across the decade, while people living with partners who smoked would be marginally better off at 28%.
"In general, living with a partner is good. It helps you quit," study author and Monash University Centre for Health Economics research fellow Karinna Saxby said. "But then if you're living with a smoking partner, you may as well be living alone - that's how much that negates that positive effect."
If there was at least one other smoker in a household, a person's chances of relapsing when trying to quit were significantly higher, Ms Saxby said. Living with a spouse who smoked was the strongest predictor of relapse.
Source: Daily Mail, 17 February 2023
See also: Nicotine Tobacco Research - Household composition and smoking behaviour in a prospective longitudinal Australian cohort ([link removed])
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** Link of the week
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** Comment: Nicotine e-cigarettes as a tool for smoking cessation
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Writing in Nature Medicine, Professor Kenneth Warner, University of Michigan, Professor Neal Benowitz, University of California, Professor Ann McNeill, UCL, and Dr Nancy Rigotti, Harvard Medical School, discuss the need for wider e-cigarettes to be more widely recommended as smoking cessation aids, given “abundant evidence” that e-cigarettes can help some individuals to quit smoking.
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