ASH Daily News for 08/12/2003
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ASH Daily News
8 December 2003
HEADLINES
Lancet's call for a ban on tobacco
Doctors call for smokers to be priced out of habit
London's first no-smoking pub
Letters
FULL TEXT
Lancet's call for a ban on tobacco
There was widespread coverage in the weekend papers on Lancet's call for a ban on tobacco.
ASH do not believe that banning tobacco is either productive or a positive way forward for tobacco control, and this widely was reported in the papers.
ASH press release:
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/press/031205.html
The Times coverage:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-921044,00.html
The leader in the Observer labelled any attempts to ban tobacco as 'idiotic' but came out in support of protecting people from harmful secondhand smoke.
The Observer:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,6903,1101604,00.html
Doctors call for smokers to be priced out of habit
Already facing calls to outlaw tobacco and a ban on lighting-up in public places, British nicotine addicts are reeling at a new proposal: hike the price to more than £5 a packet - 25p a cigarette.
The call to make the habit too expensive for the next generation will be made by the British Medical Association, which is to warn that respiratory diseases are beginning in adolescence due to smoking. It will argue that high cost is one of the most effective ways of deterring teenagers. Educational initiatives, it states, do not always get the message through to 15-year-olds, who value the need to be cool.
The warning about smoking comes after the medical journal the Lancet called for tobacco to be made illegal, arguing that tobacco would not be allowed on the market today if it had just been discovered. Smoking is responsible for 120,000 premature deaths each year.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1101836,00.html
Source: The Observer, 7 December 2003
London's first no-smoking pub
The first pub in London claiming an outright ban on smoking opens its doors next week, and there could be more on the way.
Pub landlords Laurel will open The Phoenix on Monday in the heart of the City.
It will be the only bar in the capital to offer drinkers the chance to socialise and relax in an entirely cigarette-free atmosphere.
If the experiment proves successful, the company expects eventually to ban smoking in more than 100 of its 635 pubs across the country.
Full article linked from:
http://www.tobacco.org/news/145684.html
Source: Evening Standard,
Letters
In response to editorials in several papers on Lancets call to ban tobacco, many write in to papers expressing their views. The leader in the Independent last week had rejected a ban on tobacco and then went on to reject a legal ban on smoking in public places. Ian Willmore, public affairs manager at ASH, writes in to point out exactly why a ban on smoking in public places is needed and is liberal:
http://argument.independent.co.uk/letters/story.jsp?story=471109
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Tel 020 7739 5902 Fax 020 7613 0531
ASH Daily News
8 December 2003
HEADLINES
Lancet's call for a ban on tobacco
Doctors call for smokers to be priced out of habit
London's first no-smoking pub
Letters
FULL TEXT
Lancet's call for a ban on tobacco
There was widespread coverage in the weekend papers on Lancet's call for a ban on tobacco.
ASH do not believe that banning tobacco is either productive or a positive way forward for tobacco control, and this widely was reported in the papers.
ASH press release:
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/press/031205.html
The Times coverage:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-921044,00.html
The leader in the Observer labelled any attempts to ban tobacco as 'idiotic' but came out in support of protecting people from harmful secondhand smoke.
The Observer:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,6903,1101604,00.html
Doctors call for smokers to be priced out of habit
Already facing calls to outlaw tobacco and a ban on lighting-up in public places, British nicotine addicts are reeling at a new proposal: hike the price to more than £5 a packet - 25p a cigarette.
The call to make the habit too expensive for the next generation will be made by the British Medical Association, which is to warn that respiratory diseases are beginning in adolescence due to smoking. It will argue that high cost is one of the most effective ways of deterring teenagers. Educational initiatives, it states, do not always get the message through to 15-year-olds, who value the need to be cool.
The warning about smoking comes after the medical journal the Lancet called for tobacco to be made illegal, arguing that tobacco would not be allowed on the market today if it had just been discovered. Smoking is responsible for 120,000 premature deaths each year.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1101836,00.html
Source: The Observer, 7 December 2003
London's first no-smoking pub
The first pub in London claiming an outright ban on smoking opens its doors next week, and there could be more on the way.
Pub landlords Laurel will open The Phoenix on Monday in the heart of the City.
It will be the only bar in the capital to offer drinkers the chance to socialise and relax in an entirely cigarette-free atmosphere.
If the experiment proves successful, the company expects eventually to ban smoking in more than 100 of its 635 pubs across the country.
Full article linked from:
http://www.tobacco.org/news/145684.html
Source: Evening Standard,
Letters
In response to editorials in several papers on Lancets call to ban tobacco, many write in to papers expressing their views. The leader in the Independent last week had rejected a ban on tobacco and then went on to reject a legal ban on smoking in public places. Ian Willmore, public affairs manager at ASH, writes in to point out exactly why a ban on smoking in public places is needed and is liberal:
http://argument.independent.co.uk/letters/story.jsp?story=471109
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