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ASH Daily News – Wednesday 28 November 2001-11-28
Headlines
Brown says smuggling down
Customs’ past figures and future targets on smuggling
Men undermine quit attempts of expectant partners
Computer based quit smoking program
Full Text
Brown claims smuggling down
In the pre-budget report, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon has revealed proposals to extend the crackdown on smuggling to other forms of criminal fraud after new figures indicate there has been a 76 percent reduction in revenues lost in from Channel Smuggling of alcohol and cigarettes.
How about extending it to large-scale container fraud, Mr Chancellor? Majority of contraband tobacco is still being released onto Britain’ s black market via container fraud that continues to prove costly to the treasury.
Source: The Independent, 28 November 2001
Customs’ past figures and future target on smuggling
Customs announced that it aimed to cut the level of fraud in Britain by up to 10% a year. Commenting on tobacco smuggling specifically, Customs said that it had seized 2.8bn cigarettes last year, an increase of 1bn over 1999.
It added that the £4bn a year trade in tobacco smuggling is to be tightened from 21% of all cigarettes sold to 18.9% next year.
Source: The Guardian, 28 November 2001
Men undermine quit attempts of expectant partners
Men who smoke undermine the efforts of their pregnant partners to quit smoking for good, according to survey results released Tuesday.
The study by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund showed that women who tried to quit smoking during pregnancy felt their smoking ``better halves' were unsupportive and had double standards. Most women took up smoking again after the baby was born.
Sue Ziebland, one of the authors of the report, said the best support men could give was to quit smoking themselves.
``Women feel unsupported by men's 'do as I say, not as I do' attitude when their partners continue to smoke, but encourage them to stop,' she said.
The study uncovered four common strategies employed by men who carry on smoking during their partner's pregnancy.
Men were said to be hypocritical, urging the woman to quit for health reasons but refusing to do so themselves, or non-interventionist, smoking in front of her without second thought.
Women were also annoyed by so-called ``secret smokers' who did not smoke in front of their pregnant partner, and ``cheats' who said they would share the burden of pregnancy by quitting but cheated by smoking elsewhere.
Professor Gordon McVie of the Cancer Research Campaign said that, traditionally, health education messages focused on encouraging pregnant women to quit.
``But this study suggests that pregnancy is an ideal time for both parents to kick the habit and couples are more likely to succeed if they make a joint attempt,' he said.
Source: Reuters, 27 November 2001
Computer based quit smoking program
A new study published on Monday, reports that a personalised smoking cessation computer program can increase a smokers chance of quitting. The program has the potential to help up to two million of the 56 million smokers of North America to quit.
The Computer program is now available free of charge at http://www.stop-tabac.ch
Source: University of Geneva, 27 November 2001
Visit http://TobaccoPedia.org !
Tel 020 7739 5902 Fax 020 7613 0531
ASH Daily News – Wednesday 28 November 2001-11-28
Headlines
Brown says smuggling down
Customs’ past figures and future targets on smuggling
Men undermine quit attempts of expectant partners
Computer based quit smoking program
Full Text
Brown claims smuggling down
In the pre-budget report, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon has revealed proposals to extend the crackdown on smuggling to other forms of criminal fraud after new figures indicate there has been a 76 percent reduction in revenues lost in from Channel Smuggling of alcohol and cigarettes.
How about extending it to large-scale container fraud, Mr Chancellor? Majority of contraband tobacco is still being released onto Britain’ s black market via container fraud that continues to prove costly to the treasury.
Source: The Independent, 28 November 2001
Customs’ past figures and future target on smuggling
Customs announced that it aimed to cut the level of fraud in Britain by up to 10% a year. Commenting on tobacco smuggling specifically, Customs said that it had seized 2.8bn cigarettes last year, an increase of 1bn over 1999.
It added that the £4bn a year trade in tobacco smuggling is to be tightened from 21% of all cigarettes sold to 18.9% next year.
Source: The Guardian, 28 November 2001
Men undermine quit attempts of expectant partners
Men who smoke undermine the efforts of their pregnant partners to quit smoking for good, according to survey results released Tuesday.
The study by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund showed that women who tried to quit smoking during pregnancy felt their smoking ``better halves' were unsupportive and had double standards. Most women took up smoking again after the baby was born.
Sue Ziebland, one of the authors of the report, said the best support men could give was to quit smoking themselves.
``Women feel unsupported by men's 'do as I say, not as I do' attitude when their partners continue to smoke, but encourage them to stop,' she said.
The study uncovered four common strategies employed by men who carry on smoking during their partner's pregnancy.
Men were said to be hypocritical, urging the woman to quit for health reasons but refusing to do so themselves, or non-interventionist, smoking in front of her without second thought.
Women were also annoyed by so-called ``secret smokers' who did not smoke in front of their pregnant partner, and ``cheats' who said they would share the burden of pregnancy by quitting but cheated by smoking elsewhere.
Professor Gordon McVie of the Cancer Research Campaign said that, traditionally, health education messages focused on encouraging pregnant women to quit.
``But this study suggests that pregnancy is an ideal time for both parents to kick the habit and couples are more likely to succeed if they make a joint attempt,' he said.
Source: Reuters, 27 November 2001
Computer based quit smoking program
A new study published on Monday, reports that a personalised smoking cessation computer program can increase a smokers chance of quitting. The program has the potential to help up to two million of the 56 million smokers of North America to quit.
The Computer program is now available free of charge at http://www.stop-tabac.ch
Source: University of Geneva, 27 November 2001
Visit http://TobaccoPedia.org !
