A third of children hospitalised with asthma "exposed to cigarette smoke"

One in three children who ends up in hospital with an asthma attack has been exposed to cigarette smoke, prompting renewed concern about parents smoking at home around their offspring.

A major review of how hospitals treat children with asthma found that 32% of those treated for breathing difficulties encountered “environmental tobacco smoke” just beforehand.

Given that both the number of people and also the number of mothers who smoke is declining, “the fact that one third of children admitted in this audit were recorded as being exposed to cigarette smoking is worrying”, according to the British Thoracic Society’s national paediatric asthma audit.

It examined the records of 5,443 children treated as inpatients for asthma in 153 hospitals during November 2015.

“This study highlights the importance of making homes smoke-free since that is where children are most likely to be exposed to tobacco smoke, which can trigger asthma attacks,” said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the anti-tobacco group Action on Smoking and Health.

“Health professionals need to do more to inform parents of the health risks of second-hand smoke, particularly to their children, and also to support parents who smoke to quit.”

Dr Russell Viner, officer for health promotion at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said: “It is concerning that one third of children are exposed to environmental tobacco smoke. The effects of second-hand smoke on children are well known, yet it seems our children are still often feeling the brunt of it.”

Children’s doctors want the government to reverse its £200m-a-year cut to the public health budget in England in order to boost stop-smoking services, he added. “If adults and parents are properly supported to overcome this addiction, then this can have a real positive knock-on effect to asthma sufferers.”

A legal ban on adults smoking in cars containing under-18s came into force in England and Wales in October 2015. However, freedom of information requests in March showed that 39 out of 44 police forces who responded to the BBC’s request had issued none of the £50 fines or court summons and only six warnings to adults found smoking in a vehicle containing a child. Police officers say the law is almost unenforceable as they cannot issue a physical ticket for the offence.

The audit found that “medical care of children with acute wheeze/asthma continues to be highly efficient and effective”. Few children need to be ventilated or spend time in intensive care and most spend only a short time in hospital.

But too many children who present with asthma receive an X-ray or antibiotics or both and 44% still do not receive a written personal asthma plan when they are being discharged, making it more likely that they will have to be readmitted, the audit points out. In addition, 58% were not shown how to use their inhaler properly and 47% received explanatory leaflets about asthma and how to avoid a flare-up.

A third of children hospitalised with asthma "exposed to cigarette smoke"

"Go smoke free. Stay pretty’ – the health campaigns that haven’t heard of feminism

Hear that sound, all you women of a childbearing age? It’s time, running out. Soon your eggs will be past their prime and you will no longer be of any use to society. Even if you’re hot! Just ask the Italian government, which recently launched an advertising campaign urging women to get a move on with their baby-making. One poster showed a woman brandishing an hourglass with the caption: “Beauty has no age. But fertility does.” Feminism: it has come so far.

The ill-conceived ads, launched ahead of Italy’s first national Fertility Day, were not well received and the campaign has been pulled. It’s 2016 and women feel as if they should be treated as more than glorified incubators. Who knew? There were also some suggestions that maybe the government should focus less on reminding women about their ovaries and more on trying to fix issues such as unemployment, paid maternity leave and poor childcare provisions.

Italy’s fertility publicity may not have worked as intended but it has done a good job of advertising the extent to which women’s bodies are still carefully controlled under the guise of public health advice. So, to ensure you are all up to speed with the latest developments on how to safely operate your lady-body, here are a few more examples of campaigns demonstrating an unhealthy interest in women’s health.

Booze and babies

Mixing alcohol with oestrogen, women are frequently told, is a recipe for disaster. Drinking will get us raped and/or give us herpes for starters. And if that’s not enough to get you to put that glass of merlot down, then won’t you think of the unborn children? Earlier this year, America’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention caused widespread ire when it basically said that fertile women shouldn’t be drinking unless they were on birth control. A press release explained: “Alcohol can permanently harm a developing baby before a woman knows she is pregnant. About half of all pregnancies in the United States are unplanned, and even if planned, most women won’t know they are pregnant for the first month or so, when they might still be drinking. The risk is real. Why take the chance?”

I’ve also heard that walking down the street puts you in danger of getting struck by a car. The risk is real. Of course, I don’t mean to underplay foetal alcohol syndrome, but this advice seems to greatly underplay women’s common sense. What’s more, it’s based on highly dubious evidence. A number of studies have shown that light and occasional drinking poses little risk to pregnant women, or their foetuses. In any case, the most frustrating thing about the constant flow of moralising about women and drink is how one-sided it is. There’s been very little health advice to men, after all, about how that one sip of Stella is going to turn you into a rapist with raging syphilis.

Making breast cancer sexy again

Save Second Base T-shirt. Photograph: Save Second Base

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, so it makes sense that a large amount of women’s health advice centres on our breasts. What makes less sense, however, is just how fixated on breasts these health campaigns often are. There have been a slew of “provocative” awareness campaigns centred on messages such as “Save Second Base” and “Save the Ta Tas”, for example.

And if breast cancer campaigns aren’t drowning in tired innuendo about, giggle, boobs, giggle, then they tend not to think further than pink. Indeed, Breast Cancer Action has even coined the term “pinkwashing”. It defines a pinkwasher as “a company or organisation that claims to care about breast cancer by promoting a pink ribbon product, but at the same time produces, manufactures and/or sells products that are linked to the disease”.

Superficial smoking campaigns

‘Go smoke free. Stay pretty’ … a Queensland government anti-smoking campaign. Photograph: http://ifyousmoke.initiatives.qld.gov.au/

Women only care about their looks, right? You would certainly think so judging by some of the anti-smoking campaigns. An Australian campaign called Your Future’s Not Pretty, for example, explains to young female smokers that if they don’t put down the cigarettes they might as well kiss their futures (based on men finding them attractive, obviously) goodbye: “Go smoke free. Stay pretty.” Women are invited to “upload a pic to the Future You Smoking Booth and see how old and horrible you could look if you keep smoking. It’s a shocking transformation.” Being old and female – don’t let it happen to you!

The dangers of beer goggles

A Tennessee anti-drink and drive campaign. Photograph: John Partipilo/AP

Even public health campaigns aimed at men seem fixated on passing judgment on a woman’s appearance. Last year The Highway Safety Office of Tennessee had to apologise over a campaign that warned men about the dangers of drinking and driving through irreverent messages on beer coasters. For example: “Buy a drink for a marginally good-looking girl, only to find out she’s chatty, clingy and your boss’s daughter.” Imagine, guys, after drunkenly crashing your car you could wake up to find yourself with horrible injuries and the terrible realisation that you’d made out with an ugly girl!

The campaign you haven’t seen yet

More egregious than any of these campaigns are the ones that don’t exist yet. While a large amount of energy is expended on moralising about women’s bodies, there is still a shocking lack of research around many women’s health issues. For instance, nobody knows exactly how harmful tampons might be because there has been very little research done. Ridiculous as it may seem, this would appear to come down to simple squeamishness and embarrassment – society has made menstruation so taboo that science doesn’t want to go near it. (The research that has been done has largely been funded by tampon companies, who – one imagines – aren’t entirely unbiased.)

What’s more, much medical research still focuses on men and neglects to properly control for female-specific differences. I know, it’s depressing, right? Still, I’m going to have to advise you not to take solace in a glass of wine, particularly if you’re not on birth control. It’s for your own good.

"Go smoke free. Stay pretty’ – the health campaigns that haven’t heard of feminism

Millennial Sleep Deprivation: Where there is Smoke, there is Fire

Unlike today, back in the 50s, smoking was glamorized, with famous actors flamboyantly appearing on the big screen with a cigarette in the corner of their mouth. They were surrounded by both smoke and hype, but over time, people started turning their backs on this unhealthy practice. Alas, younger generations endorse a wide array of other harmful behavioral patterns. Today, a fast-paced lifestyle with a lot of social activities and scarce sleep seems to be the new black. So, it is small wonder that Monday morning is one of the most dreaded moments in the life of millennials.

Millennium bug

Their parents used to smoke like chimneys, but millennials have their fair share of problems that impact their wellbeing. Most notably, sleep deprivation is the great plague of this population group, one which prevents them from reaching their full potential. Pay no heed to those trying to justify their bad habits and nurture delusions of being more productive when feeling tired. There is no going around the fact that lack of sleep is a problem which has a profound negative effect on your daily life and health.

When you are weary and down in the doldrums, you cannot be at your best. In fact, you struggle to process simple information, maintain your concentration, and are more prone to anger outbursts and mood swings. With impaired attention and inhibitory control, you cannot hope to nail daily tasks, can you? And that is just the tip of the iceberg, because sleeping problems bring about both depression and raise stress levels. What is more, research has shown that it facilitates drug use and increases cigarette consumption in smokers.

Give it a rest

On the other hand, with plenty of rest, you turn into a bundle of energy and face each new day with a wide smile. Yes, even when sleep deprived you may manage to get things done, but is that really the point? Scientific studies have confirmed that sleep is a powerful performance enhancer, that it affects our happiness, boosts creativity, and safeguards our health. So, it is clear that deprivation in the sleeping department can seriously affect your work performance, social life, self-esteem, grades and school, and mental health.

Of course, many millennials undermine sleep unwillingly, with a wide range of bad habits or by worrying about day-to-day troubles. Well, there are many ways to prevent these things from spilling over to your bedroom. First off, the time we go to bed is of the utmost importance for good sleeping habits. Adjusting it for an hour or two usually does the trick and elevates your energy levels. Sometimes, there are other objective hurdles present. This is the case, for example, with health issues that inhibit your good sleeping habits.

Well, this no longer has to pose a problem: purchase a humidifier in order to do away with humidity, a climate in which respiratory infections and allergies thrive. Moreover, there are many stunning solutions that aid in getting a good night’s sleep. My personal favorites are sleeping masks that feature LED lights on the inside. Namely, when the silent alarm kicks in, they gradually increase light intensity and ensure you do not wake too suddenly.

At last, although millennials seem to be born with a gadget in hand, they should consider declaring the bedroom off limits to electronic devices. When you need to melt your stress away, the last thing you need is an avalanche of text messages, emails, alerts, and social notifications. They only push you away from the dreamland, back into the distracting reality. Instead, come up with your own personal, relaxing ritual before going to sleep, and go to bed feeling satisfied. A hot bath with candles or a chapter of a favorite book can do miracles for setting the right sleeping tone.

Rise and shine

If you crave the feeling of waking up fully recharged, bear in mind that adjusting your lifestyle and turning to healthy habits makes all the difference. This is also a matter of education and bringing the negative effects of sleep deprivation to light. Just as people have tarnished the reputation of smokers back in the olden days, today we must raise awareness about proper sleeping habits. If you do not want to go up in smoke, you’d better get your sleeping hours in order. Drift away to dreamland on a tide of positive emotions and return from there rejuvenated and ready to take on any life challenge.

Millennial Sleep Deprivation: Where there is Smoke, there is Fire

Marijuana Taxes Swell, Not Up In Smoke After All

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Colorado’s tax revenue from Marijuana just doubled from final year, and that is only based on five months. Are black market place revenue offering way to legal distribution?

Marijuana Taxes Swell, Not Up In Smoke After All

If you can afford to smoke then you can afford to vape

Contrary to the “gateway” hypothesis, Action on Smoking and Overall health have repeatedly shown that the growth of vaping has coincided with a important fall in smoking, notably amongst youthful men and women, and there is no proof that e-cigarettes are “renormalising” tobacco.

With two.six million folks using e-cigarettes in a reasonably wise regulatory environment, Britain has turn out to be a essential player in a worldwide all-natural experiment. Five many years soon after vaping hit the mainstream, it is clear that the experiment is operating. There are nevertheless plenty of people in the “public health” lobby who are gripped by the Menckenian dread that someone someplace might be enjoying themselves, but most well being groups have reconciled themselves to the truth that e-cigarettes are a good thing.

Nagy Memes Szabolcz and Georgia Samuels at Vapefest, Shrewsbury

Does this indicate that the NHS need to dish them out for totally free? Not at all. E-cigarettes have undoubtedly helped many men and women, like myself, quit smoking, but they stay a recreational product. Ordinary taxpayers would rightly truly feel aggrieved if their challenging-earned funds was used to subsidise the pleasure of vapers. E-cigarettes are not medicines, they do not market themselves as medicines, and they need to not be regulated and distributed as medicines.

If you can afford to smoke, you can afford to purchase your personal e-cigarettes. I estimate that my vaping habit charges about £30 a month, like occasional hardware upgrades. When I smoked, the expense was closer to £200 and that was only simply because I went abroad frequently ample to stay away from United kingdom duty. At recent rates, a pack-a-day habit can expense up to £300 a month if you get your cigarettes in Britain. Surveys consistently display that a single of the key reasons for smokers wanting to quit is the prospect of conserving income, but when vaping is an order of magnitude less costly than smoking, the incentive to switch to e-cigarettes currently exists. They do not require to be provided away at the taxpayer’s expense.

The “public wellness” lobby is a lumbering beast that goes from one particular excessive to one more. If it is not making an attempt to ban one thing, it is making an attempt to subsidise it. What e-cigarettes and their customers really need is to be left alone. At the second, the e-cigarette industry exists in an virtually textbook illustration of a free of charge market place, with tons of competition, lower rates, couple of barriers to entry and rapid innovation. The merchandise is not “unregulated”, as some people declare, it is appropriately regulated as a client item and an electrical device.

The Welsh government is looking for to ban e-cigarettes in public locations  Photo: ALAMY

Elsewhere in the planet, items are much less rosy. Several countries have abused the precautionary principle to introduce bans, de facto bans and in excess of-regulation that have properly protected the incumbent nicotine industries (tobacco and pharmaceutical). Britain has so far avoided meddlesome and counter-productive regulation, but that is all going to alter up coming year when Write-up twenty of the European Union’s Tobacco Goods Directive comes into effect. This legislation will successfully ban most of the vaping devices and fluids you see today. Advertising will be prohibited, charges will rise and innovation will be stifled. The ideal thing the British government can do right now is discover a way to employ the EU legislation in the least damaging way.

Ultimately, and rather anti-climactically, it need to be stated that despite the front web page headlines, it is far from clear that Public Health England really do want e-cigarettes to be offered on prescription. Their report nowadays tends to make no such recommendation and considering that no brand of e-cigarette has been accredited under healthcare laws, it is challenging to see it happening in the near long term. The take-home message from their report is that e-cigarettes are vastly less hazardous than tobacco cigarettes and there is no evidence of a gateway result. This has been clear for some time, but there is so much misinformation about this disruptive new engineering that it bears repeating.

If you can afford to smoke then you can afford to vape

E-cigarette users say vaping can make them truly feel greater and end smelling of smoke

“It aids much more with the social aspect of lifestyle than something,” stated Elijah Williams, owner of House of Vapes, a dimly lit east London cafe total of modest flavour phials with names ranging from Grape to OMG.

“You don’t realise till you start employing it around pals and they are not bothered because it smells like strawberry.”

Customers of e-cigarettes or vaping units often speak about the alter in habit like a conversion story. Devotees say there is a culture of cool close to vaping but that there is more to the habit than fashion. They feel a genuine alter to their lives and their wellness as nicely as a release from cigarette addiction.

Related: Public wellness agency backs e-cigarettes as safer than smoking

“I utilized to be fairly towards it because a whole lot of my friends have been attempting to get me onto it and I did not truly see the stage,” explained Williams, who opened Home of Vapes in April.

“It was only when my pal received an upgrade and he gave me his outdated device and mentioned: ‘Listen, you’ve not paid for it, it is acquired some liquid in it, give it a go.’ Two weeks later, I was outdoors on my lunch break obtaining a cigarette. I started out employing the two of them with each other and I just didn’t like the smell of smoke on my clothes any more.”

Williams went on to see if vaping had impacted his well being, a concern shared by several when e-cigarettes very first hit the stores. His doctor confirmed that his lungs had enhanced because the switch. Williams added: “I consider it is more advantageous than damaging to be truthful.”

Relevant: E-cigarettes: is vaping any safer than old-fashioned smoke?

“As effectively as that, making use of it at residence grew to become a lot much more pleasurable due to the fact I could use it in the front room. I didn’t have to go to the backyard any far more to have a cigarette so I could just sit there and watch EastEnders with my mum which I’d by no means actually been in a position to do – so it’s aided me socially and it’s helped me give up cigarettes as well.”

Chadia Aboutaka, a customer, explained: “I haven’t done significantly analysis on it, but I know that I truly feel much better than I did smoking, so for me that is proof adequate. And I know I really do not want to vape for the rest of my existence anyway. It is anything that I’m carrying out that’s transitionary.

Jack Paul, a younger East Midlands Trains worker from Newcastle who has lately switched from smoking cigarettes to making use of a vaping gadget, additional: “I’m confident it is not one hundred% healthful simply because there is always chemicals in them, but I can say I absolutely come to feel better than I did having cigarettes – I feel they are possibly healthier.”

E-cigarette users say vaping can make them truly feel greater and end smelling of smoke

Uganda"s tobacco laws could see farmers" livelihoods go up in smoke | Alon Mwesigwa

Fred Okippi, a lifelong tobacco grower, prunes his backyard in Kiryandongo, northern Uganda. Photograph: Alon Mwesigwa for the Guardian

Fred Okippi’s 5-acre backyard is a lush emerald area of tobacco. Dressed in a black T-shirt and red hat, he delicately bends stems as he weaves his way by way of the plants, carefully pruning undesirable leaves. “This [tobacco] is my future,” he says from his house in Uganda’s western district of Kiryandongo.

But that future is under risk. The government desires to pass a bill that will restrict the manufacture and sale of tobacco and inspire folks to give up smoking.

“If the government desires to ban tobacco use, then we are going to suffer,” Okippi says. “Exactly where are we going to get income to educate our youngsters?”

All Okippi’s neighbours in Lamuorungur village grow tobacco. “Our mother and father grew tobacco and we took on the trade after their death, says Onen Can, Okippi’s neighbour, who has about seven acres.

Can, 56, and Okippi, fifty five, have grown tobacco all their lives. They do not realize how their government can contemplate enacting a law that could threaten farming the crop. Other crops such as maize are not as worthwhile as tobacco, they say.

Last yr, Okippi says, a kilogramme of tobacco was purchased for four,000 Ugandan shillings (UShs), or $ 1.60, even though that of maize went for just UShs750 ($ .thirty).

There are an estimated 75,000 tobacco farmers in Uganda. The crop, a massive earner for Uganda, is widely grown in Arua, Kanungu, Koboko, Kiryandongo, and Masindi districts. In 2011, the government earned Shs87.5bn ($ 37.7m) in taxes from tobacco, producing it 1 of the country’s leading ten income sources.

The tobacco management bill was tabled in March by Chris Baryomunsi MP. The bill will restrict the growing, promoting, and marketing of the crop. Baryomunsi explained farmers, who quickly denounced the bill, had benefited tiny from decades of tobacco farming and a lot of still live in excessive poverty.

A 2012 survey by Platform for Labour Action (PLA), a Kampala-based mostly NGO, identified that most young children in houses expanding tobacco missed half of their schooling for the duration of planting and harvesting seasons.

Neither Okippi nor Can has managed to create a long lasting home – both reside in grass-thatched huts. Sometimes, they struggle to afford a single meal a day. But, they say their kids are ready to go to school due to the fact of the cash earned from tobacco.

Baryomunsi, a qualified medical professional, says the bill seeks to protect Ugandans from conditions such as cancer. It has acquired huge help from the healthcare fraternity.

The bill, expected to be passed into law this year, seeks to prohibit smoking within a hundred metres of any public spot, workplace, and on public transport. It bans tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.

Dr Sheila Ndyanabangi, a tobacco control focal particular person at Uganda’s wellness ministry, explained tobacco had no benefit other than straining the well being technique.

“Tobacco kills,” she mentioned. “We want to make it incredibly hard for 1 to locate or smoke a cigarette. “At the Uganda Cancer Institute, we followed the history of most sufferers diagnosed with lung cancer, cancer of the mouth, throat and oesophagus and located they had been smoking.”

The well being minister, Ruhakana Rugunda, has called for larger taxes on tobacco merchandise to put the value of cigarettes out of reach for a lot of people. He explained it would also decrease the uptake and use of tobacco products by young folks.

Okippi is aware of the link in between tobacco and cancer, but is among the 15% of Ugandans who smoke. “I hear that tobacco causes cancer, but I have not acquired any dilemma,” says Okippi, his smile revealing a mouthful of discoloured teeth.

Uganda’s Mulago nationwide referral hospital in Kampala says 75% of the oral cancer patients it has taken care of had a background of tobacco use, with the variety of many years they had invested smoking ranging from two to 33, in accordance to a 2008 review by Fredrick Musoke, an academic at Makerere University, Kampala.

The Centre for Tobacco Management Africa says 13,500 Ugandans die yearly as a end result of tobacco use. The World Well being Organisation estimates 5 million men and women die globally every single year.

Although Kenya and Tanzania, Uganda’s neighbours, have tobacco laws, Ugandan traders remain unconvinced about equivalent strategies for their nation. Many describe the bill as draconian. If passed, they say, it would not only hamper their profits, but also harm the economy.

Everest Kayondo, chairman of Kampala City Traders’ Association, explained: “If individuals have invested their funds, then they should be given a favourable surroundings to promote it.”

In a statement, tobacco-generating companies in the country – which involves British American Tobacco, Ugandan Tobacco Solutions Ltd, and Continental Tobacco, stated: “The law need to make a distinction in between the goods sought to be regulated and the person corporate entity that enjoys fundamental rights and freedoms. The law need to not seek out to ban legitimate trade activities.”

To farmers Okippi and Can, the law is practically nothing but a way to deny them daily revenue.

Uganda"s tobacco laws could see farmers" livelihoods go up in smoke | Alon Mwesigwa

How Secondhand Smoke Affects Children

Secondhand smoke is the smoke emanating from cigarettes, pipes, cigars and the smoke a smoker exhales.  It is also referred to as environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), involuntary smoking, or passive smoking.  Smoke emitted from cigars, cigarettes, or pipes is at times referred to as sidestream smoke whereas exhaled smoke from a smoker is referred to as mainstream smoke.  Many concerned dad and mom and caregivers want to know how secondhand smoke impacts children.

How secondhand smoke affects young children

No matter the quantity of smoke, no volume is protected.  Every single and every time a person smokes, toxic chemicals get in the air and into every little thing including curtains, carpets, dust, furniture, and clothing, to identify a handful of.  Secondhand smoke consists of hundreds of toxic chemical substances, with far more than 70 chemical compounds that lead to cancer.

The Centers for Ailment Control and Prevention (CDC) warns parents to not smoke, or permit other people to smoke about newborn infants.  Chemicals from smoking impact an infant’s brain in techniques that interfere with their breathing.  Infants exposed to secondhand smoking are at a greater chance of acquiring Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

Infants and young children exposed to secondhand smoke also get sick far more frequently than young children not exposed to these carcinogens in the air they may possibly get bronchitis, asthma, phenomena, painful ear infections, and they may commence coughing and wheezing.  A child’s potential to do math and study may be at harm due to publicity to passive smoking.  They are also at chance of creating leukemia or a type of liver cancer called hepatoblastoma.  Young children exposed to smokers are a lot more most likely to create lung cancer when they turn into grownups.

Protecting infants and children from secondhand smoke

Concerned mother and father and caregivers take steps to steer clear of smoking in or close to their homes and vehicles.  They live their lives, smoke-totally free.  They do not depart ashtrays, cigarette or cigar butts in a child’s attain.  The American Cancer Society suggests parents and caregivers avoid all smoking indoors in buy to shield youngsters from secondhand smoke.  They also warn us that secondhand smoke affects blood circulation, the heart, and blood vessels eventually it can result in stroke, heart attacks, and heart illness.  If you or a person you know needs aid to quit smoking, get in touch with the American Cancer Society at (800) 227-2345 or go to their website: Guide to Quitting Smoking

Read a lot more of George Zapo’s articles about public, global, and environmental well being at his web site: Healthy Habits.

How Secondhand Smoke Affects Children

Men in most deprived areas of England far more than twice as probably to smoke

Men in the most deprived locations of England are far more than twice as very likely to smoke in contrast with men in the least deprived regions, while smoking rates amongst women had been highest in the most deprived areas than the least deprived regions, according to new evaluation by the Workplace for National Statistics (ONS).

The examination looked at the existing smoking prices for grownups more than 18 many years previous from the 2012 Integrated Family Survey (IHS) alongside the 2010 Index of Numerous Deprivation (IMD) and found that males and ladies had been more most likely to smoke if living in the most deprived regions of England.

In accordance to the IHS, 1 in five adults in England report that the currently smoke. The ONS analysis released right now on No Smoking Day – an annual campaign run by the British Heart Basis to inspire men and women to quit smoking – also found that men and ladies in the least deprived areas were more most likely to have quit smoking.

The ONS discovered that of all these who had ever smoked (recent and ex-smokers), males and ladies in the most deprived fifth of areas were much less most likely to have given up smoking (46.five% and 48.five% respectively) than those in the least deprived fifth (74.% and 76.% respectively).

Searching at the smoking costs by age, the analysis highlights these aged 25-34 which it states are the ages that ‘appear essential for determining to quit smoking’. The charts under display how each males and females residing in the two most deprived quintiles have been most likely to continue smoking than people in quintiles three-five. The ONS conclude that this ‘suggests far more action is needed to help smokers in the most disadvantaged locations to give up smoking.’

The analysis also discovered that the the greatest smoking inequality in between the most and least deprived places occurred at middle age (45-54). A 22.seven percentage point big difference was recorded for guys and a twenty.six percentage level big difference for women.

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Cigarette marketing back on Television: decades of campaigning up in smoke | Arwa Mahdawi

‘The several e- prefixes even more obfuscate the potential well being risks, generating them seem significantly less physical, a lot more digital.’ Photograph: Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP/Getty Photographs

They are disease-riddled, snaggle-toothed pariahs. Some have misplaced limbs, some have misplaced lungs, and some of them poison babies. Smokers, as portrayed in today’s ad breaks, tend to cut a pretty disgusting figure, cautionary tales rather than aspirational role-models. But, following a notable return to Tv marketing by Big Tobacco, the modern day Marlboro man seems to be acquiring a makeover. For the first time in a lot more than 20 many years, cigarette ads are back on British Television screens, and many decades of anti-smoking campaigning could be undermined.

On Monday night, British American Tobacco launched the 1st-ever Tv commercials for its Vype brand of e-cigarettes. If you missed the spots, you may be questioning how you go about promoting a vaporising device designed to deliver a potent parasympathomimetic alkaloid into a person’s lungs. The response, apparently, is “eye-catching people jumping”. The Vype ad functions two urbanites sprinting by means of city streets before getting propelled into the air through massive clouds of vapour. From their seems of elation, one can only surmise that vaping Vype is borderline orgasmic. Goodbye Sickly Smoker hello Vigorous Vaper watch out Everyone Else.

Britain banned tv advertisements promoting cigarettes in the 1960s, and ads for other tobacco items, such as cigars, have been prohibited given that the early 1990s. Nevertheless, recent advertising codes weren’t created with e-cigarettes in thoughts and the principles around what is now a $ 3bn (£1.8bn) business globally are still somewhat hazy. This regulatory gap has not gone unnoticed by Huge Tobacco, which is capitalising on the current state of flux with what is arguably the sector’s most prolific spate of marketing action since the 1980s.

The advent of e-cigarette advertisements in the airwaves is harmful for a number of reasons. To get started with, it dangers renormalising smoking negating the hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer cash that have gone into overall health campaigns developed to make puffing on a cigarette seem to be a lot more gormless than glamorous.

“Encounter the breakthrough,” breathes a throaty voice at the finish of the Vype ad. It’s not quite clear what this breakthrough is, but you’re evidently meant to want a bit of whatever’s sweeping the great-hunting pair in the advert off their feet.

Then there’s the wellness implications of e-cigarettes which are still ambiguous. Proponents argue that they are effective quit-smoking resources that can conserve 1000′s of lives and, as a result, need to be actively advertised. Nevertheless, nobody truly knows what extended-term hazards e-cigarettes pose. And it is worth bearing in thoughts the degree to which arguments about the health benefits of e-cigarettes echo the claims with which typical cigarettes were initial promoted. Viceroys were “dentist-advisable”, hospital patients puffed on Chesterfields, and “a lot more doctors smoke[d] Camels than any other cigarette”.

Whilst Vype may not be generating any explicit claims to be GP-accredited, every thing about its marketing, from the lithe protagonists in the ad, to the vamped-up nevertheless vapid vocabulary, is created to make it seem like component of a healthier, aspirational lifestyle. “Our secret is ECOpure, a premium top quality e-liquid that consists of pharmaceutical-grade nicotine,” reads the web copy: it is jargon formulated to existing the image of all-all-natural substances sanctioned by science. The quite a few e- prefixes even more obfuscate the prospective overall health risks, generating them seem much less physical, more digital. Even so there is practically nothing electronic about the effects of nicotine and no this kind of issue as e-cancer, e-addiction or e-death.

“Our wish to redefine smoking satisfaction knows no limits,” proclaims Vype’s corporate site. But it must. The regulation of cigarette marketing, coupled with policy adjustments and price hikes more than the years has led to a important reduction in the price of smoking.

Fewer than 1 in five grownups in England are smokers, the lowest figure in close to 80 many years. If laws are not brought into curb e-cigarette advertising, we could see decades of progress go up in smoke. Or, maybe, vapour.

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Sketch: Put that in your exhaust pipe and smoke it

None the significantly less, thanks to an amendment to the Kids and Families Bill, this was the concern that MPs had to vote on. Earlier nowadays David Cameron made clear his support for the ban. Then once more, the Prime Minister himself wasn’t in the Residence to vote, because he was occupied going to flooded areas of south west England. Or, to put it more shortly, south west England.

Inside Mr Cameron’s own celebration, nonetheless, there was discord. To some Tory MPs taking component in this evening’s debate, the situation was about civil liberty, freedom, defying the nanny state. Ban smoking in vehicles? Outrageous! An Englishman’s vehicle was his castle. This was an imposition as well far. The time had come to stand up and defend the inalienable appropriate of each Englishman, going back centuries, to pump his offspring with toxic smoke inside a motor automobile.

Major the charge of the Marlboro Light brigade was Philip Davies (Con, Shipley), who has extended denounced the ban as “intrusive and insulting”. (Mr Davies does not say this due to the fact he himself smokes on the contrary, he says he has in no way smoked, and “in reality, I do not appreciate going into smoky places”. Very good issue he isn’t a child.)

Other Tories mentioned the ban would be not possible to enforce. Angela Watkinson (Hornchurch &amp Upminster) asked no matter whether we would see particular “Smoking Police weaving in and out of the traffic, searching into automobile windows”. Jane Ellison, a junior overall health minister, rather lamely replied that this kind of details could be talked about yet another day.

Nevertheless, it was a fair question. How have been the police to catch miscreants? Would officers be educated to recognise that the automobile that has just shot previous them contained a) kids and b) cigarette smoke? (“’Ere, sarge. That bloke in the sky-blue Peugeot. He’s performing 60 a day in a developed-up spot.”)

Tim Loughton (Con, East Worthing &amp Shoreham) asked regardless of whether pregnant girls could be arrested for smoking, due to the fact their young children “are in an even much more enclosed space”. An irate David Winnick (Lab, Walsall North) believed Mr Loughton was currently being facetious. “It’s straightforward for opponents to make a mockery of this!” he barked. Yes, they thought so also.

Labour, although, are determined to push the ban through, and they are expected to get their way. Which signifies that, from now on, you won’t be permitted to smoke in the automobile even though your youngsters are in it.

The small brutes will merely have to get out and stroll.

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E-Cig Bans Need to Go Up In Smoke

Diabetes sufferers who smoke "not obtaining appropriate treatment"

Diabetes United kingdom says smokers with the ailment ought to be offered help to quit as quickly as attainable. Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian

Many people with diabetes who smoke are not being offered the assist they need to quit the habit even even though it can be particularly dangerous to individuals with the ailment, a charity claimed.

Diabetes Uk said the assistance accessible was poor despite the truth that each and every particular person with diabetes was supposed to have their smoking status recorded at their annual review, which should kickstart the process of assisting them give up.

The charity’s annual survey identified that 45% of smokers have been offered assistance and advice on providing up over the earlier 12 months.

It stated the quantity of smokers who finished the survey – 166 out of one,643 – was not adequate to be confident it presented an correct reflection but it supported anecdotal evidence.

“Smoking significantly increases chance of a variety of situations, including cancer and heart disease, and so is very harmful regardless of whether you have diabetes or not,” mentioned Diabetes United kingdom chief executive Barbara Young.

“But because diabetes puts a strain on the circulatory technique and smoking adds to that strain, smoking is even worse for you if you have the issue.

“Offered this, it is crucial that healthcare professionals make certain the yearly conversation they have with individuals with diabetes about smoking as element of their care planning evaluation is the commence of a approach of supporting smokers to give up.

“Delivering details about, and accessibility to, the diverse techniques to aid individuals give up smoking is an crucial element of enhancing assistance for men and women with diabetes.”

As well as calling on GPs to do a lot more, the charity is urging men and women with diabetes who smoke to make a resolution to quit in 2014.

There are about 3.8 million individuals with diabetes in the Uk and one in 6 of them are smokers. The amount of men and women with the ailment is predicted to rise to five million by 2025.

Professor Kevin Fenton, nationwide director of well being and wellbeing at Public Wellness England, explained: “Public Wellness England supports all efforts to improve tips, help and schooling to people who want to quit smoking. Our overall health campaigns, such as Stoptober and the recently launched Smokefree Health Harms, supply help to all men and women making an attempt to quit.

“For people with continual problems such as diabetes, normal wellness checks and, the place acceptable, referral to smoking cessation services, are a essential component of strengthening health and wellbeing.”

Diabetes sufferers who smoke "not obtaining appropriate treatment"