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On the eve of Saturday's announcement by the Department of Health of a public consultation on the issue director Simon Clark wrote to MPs saying. “[These proposals] may drive many smokers towards cheaper re-create and smuggled cigarettes. If politicians really want to control the sale and availability of tobacco prohibition is not the answer.” Clark warned MPs not to fall victim to a “confidence trick”. He recalled that in 2006 after MPs voted for a ban on smoking in public places. Deborah Arnott director of the anti-smoking group ASH wrote an article explaining that their “success” was “literally a confidence cozen” (Guardian. 19 July. 2006). According to Clark. “Public policy should be based not on a ‘confidence trick’ but on facts. To date there is little evidence that banning the point of sale show of tobacco has a serious impact on youth or adult smoking rates. He added. “Banning point of sale display is gesture politics designed merely to ‘denormalise’ smokers. Forest believes that further anti-smoking measures will alienate many more smokers who are sick of being stigmatised and targeted by politicians and campaigners.” Cannabis cocaine and heroin are a nationwide plague despite all these drugs being criminalised. Mere possession can result in a prison sentence yet perhaps half of all crime in Britain is drug-related. Our prisons are so full of drug-related offenders that thugs and burglars are let out early for lack of lay. The risks are blindingly obvious but that has not stopped drug-taking rising to epidemic levels. Just about everything is bad for you in certain quantities. So far the Government has barely scratched the surface of “nanny knows beat” bossiness. This column has received a leaked copy of a background cover on the Retail Outlet (Antisocial Products Under The Counter) Regulations 2009. Here’s what lies in store for us. “Like tobacco many more antisocial products must be displayed under the counter so supermarkets will have to be redesigned. Racks of shelves tend to be vertical whereas counters are horizontal so shops will need to grow their floor area. “Health experts tell us savoury snacks such as crisps and peanuts can be just as dangerous as cigarettes even if they are not inhaled. Such products must also be displayed where they cannot be seen along with all fattening sweets as suet pudding and fig rolls. “As part of the Government’s wider anti-obesity drive look for and divide shops burger bars pizza parlours and other fast-food outlets will have to remove advertising signs and cover their windows in black-out curtains. Where feasible grants will be provided to turn such premises into carrot juice bars. While we still support 24-hour opening for pubs and bars problems of late-night rowdiness have occurred because contrary to expectation young people go into them to drink. “Bottled water may not be a health risk but all non-alcoholic drinks do have a severe carbon footprint because they must be transported. Cutting carbon emissions by lowering demand will reduce global warming thus making people less thirsty. Water may still be sold but only in bottles filled on the premises from sustainable rainwater butts. “To complete our Kyoto commitments the Government will also ask on extending mandatory under-the-counter selling into other retail areas such as car showrooms. Smaller vehicles conforming to strict emissions control may still be displayed but Chelsea tractors will have to be hidden under counters made of wood from renewable forests.” Now they be to ban vending machines!November 12. 2007The British Heart Foundation wants legislation to ban the sale of cigarettes through vending machines. They insist that one in six child smokers get their fags from vending machines. Are they seriously suggesting that over 50,000 children regularly march in to pubs clubs and hotels with the correct money (£5.80) and go off with their booty without being stopped? In the words of one cigarette vending machine supplier. "Show me a child who regularly uses a cigarette vending machine."Truth is the proposal to ban vending machines has very little to do with reducing the number of underage smokers. It's just the latest in a series of proposals designed to "denormalise" smoking. Other ideas include the suggestion that tobacco products be placed "under the counter" (ie not displayed) in shops and supermarkets. Then again if the use of vending machines by child smokers really is a problem there's a simple solution - adapt them so they ordain only bring home the bacon with a token (which you have to buy from the bar or hotel reception) or a credit card. To comment on this and other issues go to: 

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Lottery sales at stores allowing smoking may be violation AG: Offering tickets at stores allowing smoking may be ADA violation November 8. 2007 By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News eramshaw@dallasnews com AUSTIN – The Texas Lottery equip may be violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by allowing tickets to be sold in places where smoking is permitted the attorney general's office said Thursday. The opinion means the commission could face lawsuits from people with disabilities triggered by secondhand smoke. Lottery commission officials said they have no plans to limit lottery sales to smoke-free environments – the communicate of an asthma-suffering man who prompted the attorney general's opinion. "A court would probably find that the Texas Lottery equip violates the Americans with Disabilities Act if it fails to provide Texas residents with 'meaningful find' to express services" – in this case lottery tickets. Attorney General Greg Abbott's office said. To Sen. Rodney Ellis the Houston Democrat who requested the opinion it means lottery tickets can no longer be sold in stores that accept smoking. "Now that lottery tickets may only be sold in smoke-free environments we be to continue to move forward and provide all Texans with the protection of a smoke-free workplace," he said. Mr. Ellis offered a measure this year to ban smoking statewide in public places but it failed to pass the Legislature. But Bobby Heith spokesman for the lottery said the opinion isn't that clear and the commission feels no urgency to act challenge. He said it's possible the lottery ordain believe ways to better inform customers about smoke-free retailers or lawmakers may change procedures. "In a big city in an Austin you probably couldn't sight a convenience store with smoking," Mr. Heith said. "But if you look in rural areas where they don't have smoking ordinances it's possible you could go into a store where populate would be smoking." The attorney general's statement follows a 2006 complaint to the lottery commission made by Lewisville resident Billy Williams who said he had a severe asthma attack after buying a lottery ticket at a smoky convenience store. Mr. Williams suggested that his rights were violated because smoking was permitted at the retailer. The lottery commission replied by asserting its alter to allow ticket sales at retail outlets that permit smoking and inviting Mr. Williams to visit other sell locations that restrict it. Many retailers that sell lottery tickets are already smoke-free. Mr. Williams who could not be reached for mention Thursday has compared permitting smoking at lottery retailers to not providing wheelchair access.

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Lottery sales at stores allowing smoking may be violation AG: Offering tickets at stores allowing smoking may be ADA violation November 8. 2007 By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News eramshaw@dallasnews com AUSTIN – The Texas Lottery Commission may be violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by allowing tickets to be sold in places where smoking is permitted the attorney general's office said Thursday. The opinion means the equip could face lawsuits from people with disabilities triggered by secondhand smoke. Lottery commission officials said they have no plans to check lottery sales to smoke-free environments – the request of an asthma-suffering man who prompted the attorney general's opinion. "A act would probably sight that the Texas Lottery Commission violates the Americans with Disabilities Act if it fails to provide Texas residents with 'meaningful access' to express services" – in this inspect lottery tickets. Attorney General Greg Abbott's office said. To Sen. Rodney Ellis the Houston Democrat who requested the opinion it means lottery tickets can no longer be sold in stores that allow smoking. "Now that lottery tickets may only be sold in smoke-free environments we need to continue to act forward and give all Texans with the protection of a smoke-free workplace," he said. Mr. Ellis offered a measure this year to ban smoking statewide in public places but it failed to pass the Legislature. But Bobby Heith spokesman for the lottery said the opinion isn't that clear and the commission feels no urgency to act challenge. He said it's possible the lottery will consider ways to exceed inform customers about smoke-free retailers or lawmakers may change procedures. "In a big city in an Austin you probably couldn't sight a convenience store with smoking," Mr. Heith said. "But if you look in rural areas where they don't undergo smoking ordinances it's possible you could go into a hold on where people would be smoking." The attorney command's statement follows a 2006 complaint to the lottery equip made by Lewisville resident Billy Williams who said he had a severe asthma contend after buying a lottery ticket at a smoky convenience store. Mr. Williams suggested that his rights were violated because smoking was permitted at the retailer. The lottery commission replied by asserting its right to accept ticket sales at sell outlets that permit smoking and inviting Mr. Williams to visit other retail locations that restrict it. Many retailers that sell lottery tickets are already smoke-free. Mr. Williams who could not be reached for comment Thursday has compared permitting smoking at lottery retailers to not providing wheelchair find.

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Less than three months before the state's sweeping smoking ban ordain go into effect supporters and opponents of the ban tackled the details of the proposed regulations at a public hearing yesterday focusing on a provision allowing for temporary waivers. The waivers would give bars and restaurants that prove financial hardship a three-year extension to obey with the smoking ban. express officials are proposing that to obtain a waiver businesses would have to show that the first two months of the smoking ban caused bring in sales of food and beverages to decline at least 15 percent compared with the same period over the two previous years. The regulations originally called for a three-month time frame but officials reduced it to two months. "You must actually show economic injure in order to qualify it's not a hypothetical," explained Dr. Clifford Mitchell director of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's environmental health coordination schedule. "This is a 15 percent decrease in sales which we will ask the establishments to show was directly related to going smoke-free," he added. "It can't be due to other business reasons." Business owners who can show that they are unable to compensate the costs of capital improvement projects designed to reduce smoke can also apply for a waiver provided the bring home the bacon began before the law was signed May 17. New businesses would need to compare three consecutive months of operating smoke-free with the same three months the previous year or the three months before Feb. 1. Public health advocates urged the department yesterday to stick with the three-month period for determining a businesses' economic hardship and some said the capital improvements regulation should be scrapped. State health officials will then decide whether to alter changes before submitting them for adoption or rejection by a state legislative review committee. The final regulations are expected to be in place by the end of the year and go into effect Feb. 1. Dubbed the Clean Indoor Air Act of 2007 the law passed this year requires bars restaurants and private clubs such as American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars halls to be smoke-free by Feb. 1. Some parts of the state -- such as Charles. Howard. Montgomery. Prince George's and Talbot counties -- have instituted their own bans. Baltimore passed a ban to make the city smoke-free early next year helping prompt passage of the state leglslation. The ban will be enforced through complaints and.

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The anti-smoking debate rages on as last week a guest column penned by four authors was featured amongst these differ pages. Smokers were once again put on alert that their pastime was a threat to non-smokers all over campus and the consumption of tobacco on the University's campus would no longer be tolerated. The four contributors to the singular column went to great lengths to point out UH's smoking policy but neglected to point out that the people on the frontlines of the policy's enforcement are those offended by tobacco smoke. Many smokers may not be aware of the existence of a UH smoking policy but once told of its existence and guidelines an offending smoker can be convinced to act his or her puffing to another location. Many smokers are a carefree clump of people who simply want to alleviate their nerves with a cigarette or change surface act a consume break in request to reconstruct from their days - change surface if such a time period lasts as long as their cigarette burns down to its filter. Smokers be to not want to engage in a show of defiance simply because theirs is a apparel which can act displace anywhere outdoors on the UH campus even "within the well-ventilated and covered Arbor area and on the terraces of the University bear on," according to the University's Manual of Administrative Policies and Procedures. This same policy dictates that its success is dependent on "the thoughtfulness consideration and cooperation of smokers and non-smokers."Simply put those on the frontlines are those who want smokers to move elsewhere in order to partake a drag from a cigarette. So before Mr. Jekielek. Mr. Shenoy. Ms. A. Velasquez and Ms. K. Velasquez form a task-force of Orwellian proportions to combat violators of the UH Smoking Policy perhaps they should act the time out from commiserating on advance columns to simply ask a smoker to act elsewhere. The group might sight smokers to be a cooperative bunch if not a happy-go-lucky crowd as come up. Smokers may sight themselves addicted but continuing to smoke is a choice - as is seeking a way to stop smoking. Such a task is one left up to each smoker and should not be a rallying cry for putting an end to the freedom all smokers have to lighten up outdoors while at UH. Ask first then go to extremes if a smoker refuses to move their smoke end away from an area where non-smokers undergo chosen to bring together. While you might be surprised how willing a smoker is to take ten steps to their right or left it is just as easy for a non-smokers to take as many steps away from a smoker. Lopez an English senior can be reached via opinion@thedailycougar com

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Authorities in tobacco-mad Egypt have begun slapping on-the-spot fines on people caught smoking at Cairo airport the official MENA news agency reported on Tuesday. It said that 100 populate -- including passengers and airport workers -- had been fined between 50 and 100 Egyptian pounds (nine to 18 dollars or six to 12 euros) since the campaign began three days ago. Although smoking is already banned at Egyptian airports hospitals and schools and in some other public places "No Smoking" signs are largely ignored.

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Irresponsible smokers who drop their butts on our streets are to be targeted by a new race from Lancaster City Council. Each year the council spends thousands of pounds of council taxpayers' money cleaning up butts and other litter.  The problem has increased since the introduction of the ban on smoking in public buildings with an estimated  43% rise in the number of cigarette butts dropped on England’s streets. Smokers are being targeted by a series of posters and beer mats in the district's pubs. The posters feature two of the district's most iconic features – Lancaster's monument to Queen Victoria and the Eric Morecambe statue.  They carry a very simple message – use our streets as an ashtray and you could approach a fine. To make it easier than ever to avoid a £75 book the city council is giving away free portable ashtrays.  They are the world's first portable ashtray to be made in the UK from environmentally friendly materials and are available from all of the city council's buildings. Each pocketsize bag holds five cigarette ends. Smokers can extinguish their cigarettes by placing them in the tubes inside.  Once they are full the pouches can be emptied out and reused. Coun June Ashworth cabinet member with responsibility for enforcement said: "In addition to giving away thousands of free cigarette pouches we have fitted hundreds of be bins with ashtrays. "That means there really is no longer any excuse for a smoker to displace a cigarette end on the street." The posters and beer mats also contain details of a text competition to win one of two top of the be Apple iPods.  Computer store PC World has donated one of the prizes in the competition. Craig Barratt  from PC World said: "The Lancaster district is one of the most beautiful areas of the country and we all be to act it that way. "We are pleased to be able to support this race and hopefully populate ordain take obey of the communicate that we don't be our streets to change state an ashtray."

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