ASH Daily News for 15/11/2005
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ASH Daily News
15 November 2005
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HEADLINES
Manchester pubs may enter a voluntary ban regardless of Government
proposals
Campaigners press for Liverpool smoke free trial
Smokers to get text messages to support them during their quitting
attempt
World COPD Awareness Day (16 Nov 2005)
A spectator forces an Italian actor to quit smoking on stage: Rome
FULL TEXT
Manchester pubs may enter a voluntary ban regardless of Government
proposals
Licensees in Manchester may voluntarily ban smoking in their pubs as a
protest against a food-led smoking ban.
Members of the Manchester Pubs and Clubs Network will make their
premises smoke-free regardless of whether they serve food if the
government confirms that it is to introduce a ban on smoking in food
pubs.
Phil Burke, spokesman for the Manchester Pubs and Clubs Network, told
The Publican "If the worst comes to the worst, we will ask our members
to ban smoking voluntarily." Network members were impressed by the
blanket ban in Ireland after a recent visit and its 600 members voted
overwhelmingly to support a blanket ban in England and to maintain
opposition to a ban with exceptions for food pubs.
Members of the network agreed that the food-led ban was the wrong move
by the government. Andrew O'Dwyer, licensee of Pure Space on New
Wakefield Street, said "If we are going to have a smoking ban, it has to
be with no exceptions. It will create an unlevel playing field. I
myself will have to decide whether to take away food. What people don't
acknowledge is that this will only help to increase the possibility of
binge-drinking."
The Publican 14/11/05
http://www.thepublican.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=19099&d=11&h=24&f=23&date
format=%25o-%25B-%25Y
Results of the Publican's poll 'would you prefer a blanket smoking ban
to the food-pubs only compromise announced by the government' Yes = 57%,
No = 43% (answered by 270 users of The Publican website).
The Publican also put some of the readers' questions to the Department
of Health about the smoking ban. Answers are available here:
http://www.thepublican.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=19084&d=11
Campaigners press for Liverpool smoke free trial
Campaigners in Liverpool have written to the health secretary Patricia
Hewitt to ask for permission to undertake a three-year trial to ban
smoking in all public places including pubs.
The campaigners - Smokefree Liverpool, backed by Liverpool City Council
- want to study the effects of a Liverpool trial and see if they could
attempt a full ban. Programme director Andrea Crossfield said "the vast
majority of licensees favour a complete ban. One message coming through
loud and clear is that the hospitality industry wants a level playing
field."
Liverpool City Council's own private bill to ban smoking in all public
places is due to be scrutinised by a House of Lords committee next year.
Morning Advertiser 10/11/05
Smokers to get text messages to support them during their quitting
attempt
People trying to give up smoking will be able to get encouraging text
messages on their mobile phones under a government scheme to improve
cessation therapy.
Department of Health researchers have identified particularly high-risk
days during the first weeks after a decision to quit when would-be
non-smokers are most likely to give in to temptation. A timely message
by text or email could help people during this time.
The Guardian 15/11/05
http://www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,,1642865,00.html
World COPD Awareness Day (16 Nov 2005)
A little-known illness called COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease) is on the verge of assuming epidemic proportions. On the eve of
World COPD Awareness Day the Daily Telegraph undertook a special look at
this illness.
The number of people killed by COPD each year is more that 20 times as
many killed by asthma and the World Health Organization estimates by
2020 COPD will be the third leading cause of death worldwide. In all, 3
million people in the UK could have COPD - a group of respiratory
diseases that include chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Given its epidemic proportions why have so few of us heard of it? In the
past the classic image of COPD sufferer was a coal miner unable to
breathe because of emphysema after years of inhaling coal dust. Today,
smoking accounts for every four out of five cases. Many other cases are
the result of air pollution, passive smoking, a history of respiratory
illnesses in childhood and inherited genetic risk.
Most worryingly is the growing trend of COPD sufferers among women,
especially those who took up smoking in the 1950s and 60s.
Medical treatment for COPD sufferers has often been poor with
misdiagnoses or late diagnoses and people are often seen as agents of
their own misfortune having smoked their way to ill health.
The effects of COPD on normal life can be dreadful. Wheezing,
breathlessness and coughing may make it impossible to work, even getting
dressed may leave a patient exhausted. Then there is the stigma and
self-blame that people often feel for smoking in the first place.
The Daily Telegraph 12/11/05
Information on COPD Awareness Day is available here:
http://www.goldcopd.org/AboutWCD.asp?l1=2&l2=0
Information on COPD is available from the British Lung Foundation
http://www.lunguk.org/copd.asp
A spectator forces an Italian actor to quit smoking on stage: Rome
A stunned Italian actor was told to put out the cigarette he had lit up
on stage when a spectator complained. The theatre then had to change the
script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free.
"This had never happened to me in more than 300 performances," the
actor, Sebastiano Lo Monaco, was quoted as saying by the website of
Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
Stuff.co.nz 15/11/05
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3479472a4560,00.html
Also reported in The Times and Independent
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Information Manager
Action on Smoking & Health (ASH)
102 Clifton Street
London
EC2A 4HW
Tel: 020 7739 5902
Fax: 020 7613 0531
e-mail: sarah.ward@ash.org.uk
web: http://www.ash.org.uk
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Tel 020 7739 5902 Fax 020 7613 0531
ASH Daily News
15 November 2005
[View html version: http://www.globalink.org/nbuk]
HEADLINES
Manchester pubs may enter a voluntary ban regardless of Government
proposals
Campaigners press for Liverpool smoke free trial
Smokers to get text messages to support them during their quitting
attempt
World COPD Awareness Day (16 Nov 2005)
A spectator forces an Italian actor to quit smoking on stage: Rome
FULL TEXT
Manchester pubs may enter a voluntary ban regardless of Government
proposals
Licensees in Manchester may voluntarily ban smoking in their pubs as a
protest against a food-led smoking ban.
Members of the Manchester Pubs and Clubs Network will make their
premises smoke-free regardless of whether they serve food if the
government confirms that it is to introduce a ban on smoking in food
pubs.
Phil Burke, spokesman for the Manchester Pubs and Clubs Network, told
The Publican "If the worst comes to the worst, we will ask our members
to ban smoking voluntarily." Network members were impressed by the
blanket ban in Ireland after a recent visit and its 600 members voted
overwhelmingly to support a blanket ban in England and to maintain
opposition to a ban with exceptions for food pubs.
Members of the network agreed that the food-led ban was the wrong move
by the government. Andrew O'Dwyer, licensee of Pure Space on New
Wakefield Street, said "If we are going to have a smoking ban, it has to
be with no exceptions. It will create an unlevel playing field. I
myself will have to decide whether to take away food. What people don't
acknowledge is that this will only help to increase the possibility of
binge-drinking."
The Publican 14/11/05
http://www.thepublican.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=19099&d=11&h=24&f=23&date
format=%25o-%25B-%25Y
Results of the Publican's poll 'would you prefer a blanket smoking ban
to the food-pubs only compromise announced by the government' Yes = 57%,
No = 43% (answered by 270 users of The Publican website).
The Publican also put some of the readers' questions to the Department
of Health about the smoking ban. Answers are available here:
http://www.thepublican.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=19084&d=11
Campaigners press for Liverpool smoke free trial
Campaigners in Liverpool have written to the health secretary Patricia
Hewitt to ask for permission to undertake a three-year trial to ban
smoking in all public places including pubs.
The campaigners - Smokefree Liverpool, backed by Liverpool City Council
- want to study the effects of a Liverpool trial and see if they could
attempt a full ban. Programme director Andrea Crossfield said "the vast
majority of licensees favour a complete ban. One message coming through
loud and clear is that the hospitality industry wants a level playing
field."
Liverpool City Council's own private bill to ban smoking in all public
places is due to be scrutinised by a House of Lords committee next year.
Morning Advertiser 10/11/05
Smokers to get text messages to support them during their quitting
attempt
People trying to give up smoking will be able to get encouraging text
messages on their mobile phones under a government scheme to improve
cessation therapy.
Department of Health researchers have identified particularly high-risk
days during the first weeks after a decision to quit when would-be
non-smokers are most likely to give in to temptation. A timely message
by text or email could help people during this time.
The Guardian 15/11/05
http://www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,,1642865,00.html
World COPD Awareness Day (16 Nov 2005)
A little-known illness called COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease) is on the verge of assuming epidemic proportions. On the eve of
World COPD Awareness Day the Daily Telegraph undertook a special look at
this illness.
The number of people killed by COPD each year is more that 20 times as
many killed by asthma and the World Health Organization estimates by
2020 COPD will be the third leading cause of death worldwide. In all, 3
million people in the UK could have COPD - a group of respiratory
diseases that include chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
Given its epidemic proportions why have so few of us heard of it? In the
past the classic image of COPD sufferer was a coal miner unable to
breathe because of emphysema after years of inhaling coal dust. Today,
smoking accounts for every four out of five cases. Many other cases are
the result of air pollution, passive smoking, a history of respiratory
illnesses in childhood and inherited genetic risk.
Most worryingly is the growing trend of COPD sufferers among women,
especially those who took up smoking in the 1950s and 60s.
Medical treatment for COPD sufferers has often been poor with
misdiagnoses or late diagnoses and people are often seen as agents of
their own misfortune having smoked their way to ill health.
The effects of COPD on normal life can be dreadful. Wheezing,
breathlessness and coughing may make it impossible to work, even getting
dressed may leave a patient exhausted. Then there is the stigma and
self-blame that people often feel for smoking in the first place.
The Daily Telegraph 12/11/05
Information on COPD Awareness Day is available here:
http://www.goldcopd.org/AboutWCD.asp?l1=2&l2=0
Information on COPD is available from the British Lung Foundation
http://www.lunguk.org/copd.asp
A spectator forces an Italian actor to quit smoking on stage: Rome
A stunned Italian actor was told to put out the cigarette he had lit up
on stage when a spectator complained. The theatre then had to change the
script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free.
"This had never happened to me in more than 300 performances," the
actor, Sebastiano Lo Monaco, was quoted as saying by the website of
Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
Stuff.co.nz 15/11/05
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3479472a4560,00.html
Also reported in The Times and Independent
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Sarah Ward
Information Manager
Action on Smoking & Health (ASH)
102 Clifton Street
London
EC2A 4HW
Tel: 020 7739 5902
Fax: 020 7613 0531
e-mail: sarah.ward@ash.org.uk
web: http://www.ash.org.uk
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