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Letters: CHAPMAN: David Hockney should stick to painting
Letters: HOCKNEY: The trouble with tobacco haters
Why doesn't Mr Chapman debate with a good and satisfied customer of the tobacco companies (Plain packs will make smoking history, 25 January)? Someone who has seen what will replace it as a smoothing, calming contemplative helper. Someone whose friends died of alcohol consumption, not tobacco. Someone who has smoked for nearly as long as he has lived. Someone who knows about the fanatical attitude of haters of tobacco. Someone who is not so naive about advertising and packaging.
Someone who has almost outlived a fanatical anti-smoking father. Someone who is fed up to the teeth with people who think they really know what health is. . . .
Someone who thinks laughter is good for you as it drains fear from the body. Someone who has something better to do than to try and control the quiet lives of others. Someone who knows we are all a bit different and is fed up with the growing regimentation of people. Someone who knows that smokers can live perfectly average-length lives but heavy drinkers rarely. Someone who is shocked by the growing conformity among people, and what that might mean for a reasonable free society. Someone who prefers the centre of Bohemia to Australian suburbia. Someone who knows we have to die.
Hockney hits back at "haters of tobacco"
Artist David Hockney, a member of Forest's Supporters Council, has criticised a leading anti-smoking activist who wants tobacco sold in plain packaging.
Writing to the Guardian in response to an interview with Simon Chapman, a professor of public health at the University of Sydney, Hockney asked:
Why doesn't Mr Chapman debate with a good and satisfied customer of the tobacco companies (Plain packs will make smoking history, 25 January)? Someone who has seen what will replace it as a smoothing, calming contemplative helper. Someone whose friends died of alcohol consumption, not tobacco. Someone who has smoked for nearly as long as he has lived. Someone who knows about the fanatical attitude of haters of tobacco. Someone who is not so naive about advertising and packaging.
Parents invited to pledge to make their cars smoke-free for kids
The British Lung Foundation has launched an online pledge to encourage adults to commit to keeping their cars smoke-free when children are passengers.
Any adult, whether they are a smoker, ex-smoker or non smoker can make the pledge by visiting the BLF website and entering their details.
Clare Cox, Director of Communications at the British Lung Foundation, said:
"Children have sent a strong message to their parents that they no longer want to endure a smoky car ride. Parents can listen to their children's concerns and take this pledge to protect young lungs from the damage caused by cigarette fumes in the car."
'Toxic' risk of counterfeit cigarettes sold in Sussex: Ms Rudd said people w...
Counterfeit cigarettes being sold in Sussex contain abnormally high levels of cancer-causing chemicals, a BBC investigation has revealed.
BBC South East Today found some brands had eight times as much lead as normal cigarettes.
Hastings MP Amber Rudd said many people were not aware of the dangers posed by brands smuggled into the country.
A pro-smoking lobby group said the high level of taxation on legal cigarettes was driving the illegal trade
11 North East people die every day due to smoking
SMOKING kills more than 11 people every day in the North East and it costs the region's economy over £210m a year, a new report has shown.
Experts have today revealed for the first time the true cost of smoking to the region in lives lost, illness and the toll on finances.
The latest research shows that 4,211 deaths were caused in the North East in 2010 as a result of smoking. That accounts for nearly one in five of all deaths among adults over 35.
It is estimated that around every two hours, one person dies in our region from a smoking-related illness.
Despite the North East seeing the largest drop in smoking in England over the past three years, it has one of the worst death rates in the country and the habit remains the region's biggest killer.
Interview: Lord Hanson's cigarette king is still smoking out the takeovers
When the going gets tough, nip outside for a ciggie. It's the only way Gareth Davis knows to deal with the stresses and strains of corporate life.
He might have retired from his day job two years ago, but now the former chief executive of Imperial Tobacco has three chairmanships on the go. How will he cope if they all hit a crisis at the same time? "I'll pull hard on a fag, I suppose," he says, after a moment's thought. "Have a couple of pints and reflect on it."
It's a no-nonsense style that has endeared Davis to the City over a 40-year career. Even the trio of jobs - at a bookie, a builders' merchant and a cardboard-box maker - are suitably blokeish for someone who has just jetted back from an "all-inclusive piss-up in Morocco" for a pal's 60th birthday.
Crestline man gets probation for smuggling cigarettes
BUCYRUS -- A Crestline man was sentenced to three years probation Thursday after pleading guilty to a third-degree felony charge of illegal conveyance of drugs into a correctional facility.
David J. Kegley, 35, 600 S. Pearl St., admitted attempting to smuggle cigarettes into the Crawford County Justice Center on Feb. 25.
Kegley was given credit for four days time served and was ordered to pay a $250 fine and court costs.
The true cost of smoking
A STAGGERING one-in-four people in Hartlepool smoke ? with £3.7m spent every year treating them.
And shocking figures also reveal 254 pregnant women were still smoking at the time they gave birth last year.
A ?stark? report by anti-smoking lobby FRESH also revealed:
? 18,000 people regularly smoke in Hartlepool. That?s 24.7 per cent of the adult population;
? Around 164 people die each year in the town from smoking;
? 23 per cent of Hartlepool women were recorded as smoking at the time they gave birth in the last year;
? The cost of hospital admissions to treat smoking-related problems is £1.9m a year.
And yet there?s still good news too because Hartlepool has one of the best records in the country for getting smokers to quit.
Guidance on the display and pricing of tobacco products in England, for tobac...
Introduction
1. The law on the display of all products containing tobacco and the display of tobacco prices in England is changing. 1
2. From 6 April 2012, new law will affect large shops selling tobacco products (other than specialist and bulk tobacconists). All other shops and businesses selling tobacco products (including bulk tobacconists and specialist tobacconists) will be affected from 6 April 2015.
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7. The aim of this guidance is to explain the requirements of the new law so that both businesses and regulatory officers are helped to implement it successfully. It also suggests practical steps that retailers can take to prepare for the start of the new law. This guidance has been written by the Local Government Regulatory Support Unit with the Department of Health; the British Retail Consortium and the Association of Convenience Stores also contributed to its development.
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While deliveries are often made "behind the scenes" with products being unloaded directly into storage areas that are not generally in public view, in many small shops deliveries have to be taken through the public area of the shop. Depending on the nature of the outer packaging, it is possible that a technical breach of the display law may be made if deliveries can be seen by customers while they are being taken through the public area of a shop. Retailers must take steps to keep any such display to a minimum. Tobacco products should be removed from sight as soon as possible and deliveries should not be left on open view for any longer than is necessary to move them to a storage area. . . .
Staff members collecting goods to make up online orders should only display tobacco products for as long as is necessary to take the items out of the gantry and add them to the order. Tobacco products must not be visible to customers while being carried around the shop after being placed in a crate or trolley.
Are you ready for the Tobacco Display Ban?
The law on the display of all products containing tobacco and the display of tobacco prices in England is changing. From 6 April 2012, a new law will affect stores that are over 3000 sq ft selling tobacco products.
All other shops and businesses selling tobacco products will be affected from 6 April 2015
The following guidance is aimed at retailers and staff to help with compliance with the new regulations. More detailed guidance on the regulations published by the Department of Health can be found here.
You can download guidance in either poster or booklet format for your store using the links below.
ACS publishes retailers' guide to tobacco display ban
The Association of Convenience Stores has published a guide for retailers on the upcoming tobacco display ban.
The new rules, which apply to stores in England with over 280 sq m of retail floor space, come into force on 6 April 2012. Smaller stores will need to comply by 6 April 2015.
The guidance is based on the more detailed advice produced by the Department of Health in collaboration with trading standards, ACS and the British Retail Consortium. It is designed to help retailers with the crucial task of training their staff.
The ACS claims the new rules are imposing a major burden on retailers and causing significant disruption and upheaval. It also points to continuing confusion about the rules that will apply in other parts of the United Kingdom.
ACS chief executive James Lowman said: "At this point it is only possible to produce a guide for retailers in England. We still await confirmation of the final regulations and implementation dates in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
EDITORIAL: Fine anyone who smokes in hospital
In the aftermath of a fire caused by a patient at Glenfield Hospital, we believe that anyone caught attempting to light a cigarette inside the premises should face an immediate fine or a criminal prosecution.
The person behind the blaze faces no charges as there was 'no intent' to cause a fire, say police.
However, this patient did decide to smoke in a building which has a strict no-smoking policy.
We believe we will not be alone in the view that some sort of action must be taken in future.
The smoker showed no regard for the hospital's rules, caused damage which will cost the NHS money and showed no respect for the staff and fellow patients on the ward - people who suffer from respiratory problems. . . .
We believe this incident creates an opportunity to set down a marker and, in future, if someone smokes in a hospital they should, at the very least, face a very hefty fine.
Roll-ups boom as UK smokers cut back
SMOKERS trading down to value cigarettes and rolling tobacco in the UK boosted the owner of the Gauloises, Ducados, Lambert & Butler and Davidoff tobacco brands.
Imperial Tobacco said underlying volumes fell 7% in the final quarter of 2011 as sales were hit by the impact of sanctions in Syria, further declines in Spain amid the economic gloom, and destocking following a price rise in the US.
But revenues were down just 1% as it benefited from price rises and the sale of more expensive products.
And in the UK it has seen strong demand for its value brands, including JPS and Windsor Blue, and a rise in demand for fine-cut tobacco as customers roll their own to save money.
Council leader Nash Ali defends Town Hall's £32m tobacco pension investment
Cllr Ali (pictured) said on Tuesday: "As a council we do not encourage people to use tobacco and actively carry out work to discourage its use, but like every pension fund across the country we have a legal duty to our members and, in the case of council pension funds, council taxpayers to secure the best investment returns available."
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"I can see how this could be of concern to our residents and, as someone who is trying to kick the habit, it is a grim investment, but tobacco is a legal product and, in a time of financial pressure for councils, our pension fund should not become a further burden on local council taxpayers."
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