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ASH Daily News
28 December 2001


HEADLINES

Smoke- Free Cruise Ship
Pharmacists “more helpful than GPs” in fight to quit smoking
Response to FOREST report on the danders of passive smoking.


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Smoke- Free Cruise Ship

Carnival Cruise Lines have publicised the fact that one of their ships, the Paradise, is the world’s only smoke-free cruise liner. It could be just the ticket for anyone looking to quit smoking in the New Year. The ship is completely smoke-free, and any passenger who lights up could find it the most expensive puff they have ever taken.

Getting caught means being booted off the ship at the next port, with no second chance and no refund. On top of that, the passenger’s shipboard account is docked $250 for disregarding the rules.

Source: Lloyds List

Pharmacists “more helpful than GPs” in fight to quit smoking

Smokers trying to quit find pharmacists more helpful than nurses or doctors, a survey for SmokeFree London has shown. Of the 1845 smokers who had tried to give up cigarettes in the last 12 months, 73% who spoke to a pharmacist said it was “helpful” compared to 67% of those who had spoken to a nurse and 53% of those who had spoken to their GP.

Source: Chemist and Druggist.

Response to FOREST report on the danders of passive smoking.

Following the publication yesterday of a new report by FOREST, claiming to give the lie to a number of health scares, with the real intention of muddying the issue of the dangers of passive smoking by linking it to other, less well researched, health scares, the Guardian prints 2 letters from health professionals attacking the report.

Peter Ashton of Sheffield Health Authority writes:

“Perhaps [Forest Chair] Lord Harris needs a gentle reminder that death is something that occurs to your average smoker a couple of decades before the average non-smoker. Were Ms Gaffikin to consider penning a text called “Tar Wars: The Phantom Menace”, she might even find an independent publisher!”

Martin McKee, Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine writes:

“Will its [tobacco] industry backers now abandon their campaign ($4m spent attacking one WHO study alone) to distort the clear evidence that second-hand smoking, and not just active smoking, kills? Or is the Forest report simply another step in the tobacco industry’s strategy of creating a public perception of confusion where there is none?

Source: The Guardian
Report: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4325888,00.html








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