HEADLINES

• Lanarkshire Council to clean up mess left by hospital smokers
• Cumbria: New push by NHS to help county’s remaining smokers
• USA: Jury orders Philip Morris to pay $12.8 million to son for father’s lung cancer death
• Victoria's Secret model ruins photoshoot with cigarette hanging out of her mouth
• India: Hookah is "less dangerous than cigarettes" say cafe owners
• Norwegian cruise line updates smoking policy fleet-wide

• Lanarkshire Council to clean up mess left by hospital smokers

  South Lanarkshire Council have pledged to crack down on people who litter roads surrounding Hairmyres Hospital with cigarette butts.

  EK West Councillor David Watson claims the amount of cigarette ends littering Eaglesham Road is worse than ever.

  He has also written to health chiefs, expressing his concern in the hope that action can be taken.

  Source: East Kilbride News - 10 August 2011
  Link: http://bit.ly/qCM2Vh

• Cumbria: New push by NHS to help county’s remaining smokers

  Smokers across the county who successfully quit the habit with NHS support will have the chance to win £20 of shopping vouchers from this month.

  Those who stop smoking with support from participating pharmacies or the Cumbria Stop Smoking Service can be entered into a prize draw.

  Funding for the initiative has been provided by regional organisation Smokefree North West.

  Six monthly draws will be made for people who’ve reached their four week quit target in Copeland and Allerdale.

  Source: The Whitehaven News - 11 August 2011
  Link: http://bit.ly/p18FRE

• USA: Jury orders Philip Morris to pay $12.8 million to son for father’s lung cancer death

  A jury has ordered Philip Morris USA Inc. to pay $12.8 million to the 19-year-old son of a man who died of lung cancer from smoking Marlboro cigarettes.

  A Los Angeles Superior Court panel deliberated for about a day before finding 9-3 in favor of Dylan Boeken. The verdict comes a decade after his father, Richard Boeken, won a $3 billion award against the tobacco giant. He died seven months later of lung cancer.

  His son, who was 10 at the time of his father’s death, sought damages for loss of his father’s love, affection, guidance and training. He is now in college.

  Boeken’s attorney, Michael Piuze, said that interest on the judgment could eventually bring the award to $19.2 million.

  Source: SWRNN - 09 August 2011
  Link: http://bit.ly/qys2u3

• Victoria's Secret model ruins photoshoot with cigarette hanging out of her mouth

  The Daily Mail reports:
  

  "Victoria's Secret models are meant to be the pinnacle of beauty.

  But Erin Heatherton burned the bridges of perfection by puffing on a cigarette during a photoshoot against the stunning backdrop of St Barts.

  Ok, so we all have bad habits, but the juxtaposition of beach chic versus a nicotine fix wasn't too attractive."

  Source: Daily Mail - 11 August 2011
  Link: http://bit.ly/qANPgh

• India: Hookah is "less dangerous than cigarettes" say cafe owners

  Hookah is much less dangerous than cigarettes, city-based Hookah parlour Mocha Cafe today argued at the Bombay High Court during the hearing on its petition challenging the ban on the sale of tobacco items at eating joints.

  Division bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice G S Godbole, on July 13, had upheld a circular issued by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, banning sale of Hookah in eateries.

  Mocha Cafe and several other hookah parlours have challenged the circular, on the ground that MCGM has no powers to issue directions under COTPA which is a central act.

  The hearing continues.
   

  Source: IBNLive - 10 August 2011
  Link: http://bit.ly/nIt6KB

• Norwegian cruise line updates smoking policy fleet-wide

  Norwegian Cruise Line has announced adjustments to its smoking policy for each of the line’s 11 Freestyle Cruising ships in response to changing guest preferences. Effective from January 2012, guests setting sail on a Norwegian cruise vacation are no longer permitted to smoke cigarettes in their staterooms.

  Guests who are in a balcony stateroom will be permitted to smoke on the outside balcony; however, cigar and pipe smoking in staterooms and on balconies is prohibited.

  In an effort to diminish the presence of smoke indoors, cigarette smoking is only permitted in the casino, where ashtrays and appropriate signage will be displayed. Smoking is prohibited in all other public interior venues including all bars, restaurants, conference rooms, corridors, restrooms, staircases and landings. 

  Source: Passenger Shipping Association - 11 August 2011
  Link: http://bit.ly/qHmS0F