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ASH Daily News
9 December 2003
HEADLINES
EU missing chance to cut smoking
Smokeless tobacco move could help economy, says MP
Teenagers facing a health time bomb
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EU missing chance to cut smoking
The European Union has been urged to revamp its current partial ban on
the sale of smokeless tobacco products.
An alliance of researchers and anti-tobacco activists says some products
- including forms of snuff - which might help people quit smoking are
banned.
However, others, such as chewing tobacco from India, which are highly
toxic, are not.
The research, published in the journal Tobacco Control, calls for new
rules to ban the most harmful products.
It stresses that no form of smokeless tobacco is completely harmless.
But it says that some products, in particular a Swedish form of snuff
called snus, are considerably less harmful than others.
Full BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3300769.stm
Click here to view full papers:
http://press.psprings.co.uk/tc/december/360_tc5074.pdf (EU policy)
http://press.psprings.co.uk/tc/december/349_tc4879.pdf (Swedish
research)
http://press.psprings.co.uk/tc/december/368_tc6411.pdf (commentary)
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Source: BBC Online, 9 December 2003
Smokeless tobacco move could help economy, says MP
Wales is in a prime position to benefit from a relaxation of the laws
banning a form of smokeless tobacco regarded by experts as the answer to
the nation's cigarette habit.
Pressure is growing on the European Union to lift its ban on smokeless
tobacco products, such as Swedish snus, as health experts today said it
was 90% less hazardous than cigarette smoking.
And campaigner Newport West MP Paul Flynn said such a move could have
considerable commercial and economic repercussions for Wales.
He believes the country could become a centre for the production of this
less-harmful smokeless tobacco product - currently only made in Sweden
and the US - with the creation of hundreds of jobs.
Source: Western Mail, 9 December 2003
Teenagers facing a health time bomb
The binge drinking, drug taking, sexually careless behaviour of today's
adolescents is setting them up to become the most obese and infertile
generation of adults ever, warns a report from Britain's doctors.
Adolescents - still shedding their childhood but desperate to be adults
- are falling through the gap between services provided for those who
are younger or older than they are, says the British Medical Association
in a report out yesterday.
Source: The Guardian, The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Sun, 9 December
2003
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