ASH Daily News for 28/10/1999
HEADLINES
ASH, 102 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4HW Tel: 0171 739 5902
Fax: 0171 613 0531
ASH Daily News
Bar staff to sue for smoking injuries
Roy Castle Foundation: ‘Business as usual’
Franco-Spanish duo to target UK market
‘Last Act of Hamlet’
Yugoslavia's 'Crackdown' on smuggled cigarettes to Italy
Headlines
Full Text
Bar staff to sue for smoking injuries
Fifty bar workers in Ireland are to sue their bosses in the first
smoking-related personal injury claim in the history of the State – an
action which should affect every employer.
The legal action is being undertaken by Dublin based solicitors Ward
and Fitzpatrick, are claiming their clients were injured directly as a
result of smoking and indirectly by their working environment. The
injuries include lung cancer and emphysema is also directed against
tobacco companies. However, the cases are unlikely to start for at
least 18 months.
Source: Examiner Newspaper, 28th October 1999
Roy Castle Foundation: ‘Business as usual’
Sylvia Ingham has resigned as Chief Executive of the Roy Castle Lung
Foundation.
Contrary to reports of a ‘Cash Crisis’ the foundation has said it is
‘Business as usual’.
The Roy Castle Lung Foundation added: “The Trustees of the Foundation
have asked Professor Ray Donnelly, Founder and Medical Director to
take over the day to day running of the Foundation. This means that,
in his safe hands, all the projects of the Foundation continue as
before.”
Source: The Independent, Daily Mail, 28 October 1999
Franco-Spanish duo to target UK market
The combined tobacco companies of Seita of France and Tabacalera of
Spain is reported as being set to target the pockets of UK smokers
Source: Evening Standard News Extra, 27 October 1999
‘Last Act of Hamlet’
There is coverage of the last advertisement for the Hamlet cigar. The
advert will run in cinemas until the 10th December. The Mirror takes
a ‘nostalgic’ view of the thirty six year old advertising campaign
with the catchphrase ‘Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet’ and
describes them as a ‘much loved…classic commercial’.
Source: The Express, Mirror, The Sun, 28 October 1999, Evening
Standard, 27 October 1999.
Yugoslavia's 'Crackdown' on smuggled cigarettes to Italy
Yugoslavia’s attempts to cut down on smuggled cigarettes to Italy will
involve the policy of cutting taxes to ensure they are cheaper than
the smuggled products.
They have also invited Italian Police to visit Montenegro. This
‘crackdown’ is part of an agreement, with Richard Scala, US Special
envoy in return for US and European economic aid. Up to 20 speedboats
each carrying 225,000 packets of cigarettes leave the Yugoslavian port
of Bar every night for Southern Italy. From there the packs are
distributed throughout Europe. The report adds that ‘The European
Commission has repeatedly criticised Yugoslavia for allowing the trade
’.
Source: Wall Street Journal Europe, 28 October 1999
Karl Brookes
Project Manager
102 Clifton Street
London EC2A 4HW
Tel: +44 (0)171-739 5902
Fax: +44 (0)171-613 0531
0589504040 (Mobile)
01426109768 (Pager)
Web: http://www.ash.org.uk
