ASH Daily News for 30/09/2005
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ASH Daily News
30 September 2005
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Supreme Court of Canada clears way for healthcare tobacco suit
Exemptions will not work, pub group demonstrates
Passive smoking linked to Leukaemia
Rizla rolls out
Hockney is on the side of the bullies, letter
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Supreme Court of Canada clears way for healthcare tobacco suit
A ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada opened the door on Thursday for the province of British Columbia to sue tobacco companies in an effort to recover the cost of smoking-related health care.
The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek restitution for health care costs related to smoking for the last 50 years and for future costs.
Provincial governments estimate they have spent nearly $100 billion treating lung cancer and other diseases often caused by smoking.
The provinces want their money back and they are suing tobacco companies to get it.
BAT has stated that it will 'vigorously defend itself'.
Source: Reuters, Forbes, ABC, CATV, 30 September 2005
Article links: (R) http://tinyurl.com/bbycb (F) http://tinyurl.com/clfdh: (C) http://tinyurl.com/9rqgw
Exemptions will not work, pub group demonstrates
Mitchells & Butlers claims a trial smoking ban at its pubs in Grimsby has illustrated the disastrous consequences that will arise if the government persists with its food-led proposals.
The six-month experiment, which has seen smoking banned throughout the group's dozen pubs in the Lincolnshire town, began in June.
Pubs in well-off areas of the town with a significant food offer had performed well, M&B chief executive Tim Clarke said, while those in poorer districts with a lower food take had "suffered quite a lot".
Pubs where food contributed to less than 10 per cent of sales would end up removing it, he predicted.
Source: Publican, 29 September 2005
Article link: http://tinyurl.com/aur29
Passive smoking linked to leukaemia
Long-term exposure to environmental tobacco smoke may raise the risk of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, new research suggests
A Canadian study published in Epidemiology analysed data on 266 people with confirmed adult leukaemia and 1326 controls.
None had been smokers but they all reported residential environmental tobacco smoke exposure for at least 75% of their lifetimes.
No association was found for most leukaemia subtypes, but in those with more than 83 smoker-years of residential exposure, the adjusted odds ratio for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia was 2.3.
For more than 72 smoker-years of occupational exposure, the corresponding odds ratio was 2.4.
Source: Nursing Times, 29 September 2005
Reference: Epidemiology 2005;16:672-680
Article link: http://tinyurl.com/8wp85
Journal link: http://www.epidem.com/
Rizla rolls out
Rizla rolling papers will no longer be made in Britain from next year after Imperial Tobacco said it was closing its factory in Treforest, south Wales, with the loss of 134 jobs. Rizla and other Imperial brands make up about 75% of the British rolling-paper market.
The Treforest plant, opened in 1940, ran at close to its 25bn leaf capacity last year. But Imperial believes it can save £3m a year by shifting production to a larger, under-used factory in Wilrijk, Belgium, which can produce 66bn leaves. The Belgian site will be the world's sole Rizla plant. Global sales of Imperial rolling papers were flat last year.
Source: Guardian, 30 September 2005
Hockney is on the side of the bullies, letter
'Sir - David Hockney is wrong. It is the smokers who are the bullies.
I am sick of having a meal in a pub or restaurant while a person on the next table lights up, sometimes between every course, blowing smoke in my direction, while I am still eating. I am sick of coming home with my clothes and hair stinking of someone else's cigarettes.
I am sick of the way smokers hold their cigarettes away from themselves so that the smoke doesn't go in their eyes but in yours, and the way they leave the ash for other people to clear up.
Alcohol may be more harmful than cigarettes but not to the person sitting next to you.'
Aileen Smith, Brighton, E. Sussex
Source: Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2005
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ASH Daily News
30 September 2005
[View html version: http://www.globalink.org/nbuk]
HEADLINES
Supreme Court of Canada clears way for healthcare tobacco suit
Exemptions will not work, pub group demonstrates
Passive smoking linked to Leukaemia
Rizla rolls out
Hockney is on the side of the bullies, letter
FULL TEXT
Supreme Court of Canada clears way for healthcare tobacco suit
A ruling by the Supreme Court of Canada opened the door on Thursday for the province of British Columbia to sue tobacco companies in an effort to recover the cost of smoking-related health care.
The unanimous decision upholds legislation passed eight years ago by lawmakers in British Columbia that allowed the province to seek restitution for health care costs related to smoking for the last 50 years and for future costs.
Provincial governments estimate they have spent nearly $100 billion treating lung cancer and other diseases often caused by smoking.
The provinces want their money back and they are suing tobacco companies to get it.
BAT has stated that it will 'vigorously defend itself'.
Source: Reuters, Forbes, ABC, CATV, 30 September 2005
Article links: (R) http://tinyurl.com/bbycb (F) http://tinyurl.com/clfdh: (C) http://tinyurl.com/9rqgw
Exemptions will not work, pub group demonstrates
Mitchells & Butlers claims a trial smoking ban at its pubs in Grimsby has illustrated the disastrous consequences that will arise if the government persists with its food-led proposals.
The six-month experiment, which has seen smoking banned throughout the group's dozen pubs in the Lincolnshire town, began in June.
Pubs in well-off areas of the town with a significant food offer had performed well, M&B chief executive Tim Clarke said, while those in poorer districts with a lower food take had "suffered quite a lot".
Pubs where food contributed to less than 10 per cent of sales would end up removing it, he predicted.
Source: Publican, 29 September 2005
Article link: http://tinyurl.com/aur29
Passive smoking linked to leukaemia
Long-term exposure to environmental tobacco smoke may raise the risk of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, new research suggests
A Canadian study published in Epidemiology analysed data on 266 people with confirmed adult leukaemia and 1326 controls.
None had been smokers but they all reported residential environmental tobacco smoke exposure for at least 75% of their lifetimes.
No association was found for most leukaemia subtypes, but in those with more than 83 smoker-years of residential exposure, the adjusted odds ratio for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia was 2.3.
For more than 72 smoker-years of occupational exposure, the corresponding odds ratio was 2.4.
Source: Nursing Times, 29 September 2005
Reference: Epidemiology 2005;16:672-680
Article link: http://tinyurl.com/8wp85
Journal link: http://www.epidem.com/
Rizla rolls out
Rizla rolling papers will no longer be made in Britain from next year after Imperial Tobacco said it was closing its factory in Treforest, south Wales, with the loss of 134 jobs. Rizla and other Imperial brands make up about 75% of the British rolling-paper market.
The Treforest plant, opened in 1940, ran at close to its 25bn leaf capacity last year. But Imperial believes it can save £3m a year by shifting production to a larger, under-used factory in Wilrijk, Belgium, which can produce 66bn leaves. The Belgian site will be the world's sole Rizla plant. Global sales of Imperial rolling papers were flat last year.
Source: Guardian, 30 September 2005
Hockney is on the side of the bullies, letter
'Sir - David Hockney is wrong. It is the smokers who are the bullies.
I am sick of having a meal in a pub or restaurant while a person on the next table lights up, sometimes between every course, blowing smoke in my direction, while I am still eating. I am sick of coming home with my clothes and hair stinking of someone else's cigarettes.
I am sick of the way smokers hold their cigarettes away from themselves so that the smoke doesn't go in their eyes but in yours, and the way they leave the ash for other people to clear up.
Alcohol may be more harmful than cigarettes but not to the person sitting next to you.'
Aileen Smith, Brighton, E. Sussex
Source: Daily Telegraph, 30 September 2005
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