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ASH Daily News

19 December 2002

HEADLINES

Conservatives criticise Customs
Smoking and cot death


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Conservatives criticise Customs

Customs officials have been accused of missing by nearly one billion a
target for seizing smuggled cigarettes.

The Tories said the goal had "gone up in smoke". But Customs and Excise said
they had exceeded targets to cut the proportion of illegal cigarette sales.
They insisted the number of illegal cigarettes imported into Britain had
also fallen.

A Customs spokeswoman said the quantity of illegal imports had fallen by 5
per cent last year, and the department had exceeded its target to limit the
size of the illegal tobacco market in Britain.

Full text: http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=362891
Source: The Independent, 19 December 2002



Smoking and cot death

Babies whose mothers smoke during pregnancy are slower to wake and therefore
be more at risk from cot death. Apnoea, a temporary halt in breathing which
normally provides a wakening response, was reduced or missing in smokers
babies, Australian researchers found.

The research team, in Queensland, Australia, say their findings back up
previous evidence that smoking may be linked to one in three cot deaths.

BBC report on tobacco and cot death:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2583397.stm
Source: The Times, The Express, 19 December 2002


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Naj Dehlavi
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