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ASH Daily News


Saturday 23rd – Monday 25 October

Headlines

1 million ‘Lambert & Butler’ umbrellas coming to a rainy street near
you?
Act Globally to control Tobacco Use
Disco fire ‘started by cigarette’
New film depicts whistle-blower’s life
‘Dunhill heir lets his fortune go up in smoke’
‘Smoking research is key to burning issue’

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1 million Lambert & Butler umbrellas coming to a rainy street near
you?

1 million umbrellas with the ‘Lambert & Butler’ name on will be sent,
free of charge, to every single smoker on the brand’s mailing list.

A DoH spokesperson said: “If this is the case it would be an example
of bad faith which may lead to amending the regulations or even
further legislation”

Amanda Sandford, of ASH, said “This shows the lengths that the
cigarette companies will go in order to get round an advertising ban”

An Imperial Tobacco spokesperson said the golf umbrellas were
promotional merchandise and that none had been given out so far.

Source: The Sunday Express, 24 October 1999

Act Globally to control Tobacco Use

Gro Harlem Brundtland points out that tobacco is ‘unique as a mass
consumer product. It kills almost half of its regular users.’

On dealing with this problem she writes: 'The World Health
Organisation, along with its UN partner, a growing cadre of
nongovernmental organisations and private sector representatives is
leading an invigorated global tobacco control effort. It aims to
ensure that all young people are protected from tobacco and that
adults are made aware of its dangers and given the support needed to
quit for life.'

The article continues, ‘This partnership knows what works: price
increases using excise tax; total bans on all forms of tobacco
advertising promotions and marketing; bans on smoking in public places
strong counteradvertising, cessation programs that use pharmaceutical
intervention; better control of smuggling and well designed school and
community based media campaigns. We do not need new vaccines or new
knowledge. We need political commitment and action. '

This is the first time that the WHO has used its constitutional right
to develop a binding treaty.

Source: International Herald Tribune, 23 October 1999

New film depicts whistle-blower’s life

A new film, ‘The Insider’ starring Al Pacino, depicts the life of
Jeffrey Wigand, the whistleblower who was the former biochemist and
head of research at Brown & Williamson.

Source: International Herald Tribune, 23 October 1999

Disco fire ‘started by cigarette’

More than 80 Austrian teenagers were burned yesterday in a club fire
that was started by a discarded cigarette.

Source: Sunday Express, Mail on Sunday, 1999

‘Dunhill heir lets his fortune go up in smoke’

‘The heir to a £20 million Dunhill fortune has sunk to leeching off
taxpayers after squandering all his cash on drugs, drink high living
and hare-brained get-rich quick schemes’ reports the News of the
World.

The article continues that: ‘Christopher Dunhill has fallen so low
that he even rifled his daughter’s piggy bank then ‘borrowed’ £100 the
little girl received as a birthday present.'

Source: News of World, 24 October 1999

‘Smoking research is key to burning issue’

Licensees who have introduced no-smoking areas will tell the public
just how successful the idea has been at a press conference next month
to be followed by a seminar in Staffordshire. New research by
Staffordshire Health Authority is part of a pilot project. Heather
Temperton of the Smoke Free Staffordshire project, said other health
authorities would be encouraged to promote no-smoking areas in pubs
and restaurants.

ASH director, Clive Bates said he was delighted to see that more and
more pubs were introducing non-smoking areas following the
introduction of the public places charter.

For more details of the press conference and seminar e-mail:
karl.brookes@dial.pipex.com

Source: The Licensee, 25 October 1999

Karl Brookes
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