Guernsey Smoking-Free by 2040

If a Guernsey campaign group are successful, they say Guernsey could be free from any smokers by 2040. GASP want the island to follow countries who have already set targets for stamping out smoking completely.

The group believes curbing the use of tobacco so that the island becomes smoke-free will have the single greatest significant impact on public health.

Finland and New Zealand have already set themselves the goal of being smoke-free by 2040 and GASP believe it is an achievable aim in Guernsey.

Over the past 15 years the number of adults and young people who smoke in the island has significantly reduced - and 81% of people in Guernsey are non-smokers.

Attitudes to smoking have also hardened, especially among young people. In the recent Guernsey Young Peoples survey 97% of primary school pupils (87% of secondary and post-16 pupils) answered no when asked if it is OK for adults to smoke around children.

Cigarette Advertisements in Albania

Adopting stricter tobacco control laws, but inadequately enforcing them, does not curb Wont smoking prevalence, according to research from Albania. Despite the adoption of strong anti-smoking policies and restrictions on cigarette adverting in 2007, the smoking rate in Albania has risen. The increase in cigarette smoking has been driven by higher smoking rates among women and young adults.

Albania's anti-smoking laws have, however, contributed to reductions in exposure to secondhand smoke and tobacco advertising.

"The impacts of smoke-free policies and an advertising ban have been limited due to lack of enforcement and failure to adopt a comprehensive set of tobacco control measures," said the researchers of a study that appears in the December 2010 issue of the journal Tobacco Control.

An Appeal to Smoking Ban

The attorney representing American Legion Post 23 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1298 in the organizations’ battle against the city’s Bond smoking ban has appealed the citation issued last week at a charitable gaming session hosted by the Legion.

Alan Simpson of Bowling Green wrote a letter Friday to the Bowling Green Code Enforcement Board requesting a hearing regarding the citation, which names Jim Manley, chief finance officer for the American Legion, as the alleged violator.

Issued Thursday - the first day the ordinance against indoor smoking went into effect - the citation has three provisions of the ordinance marked as having been violated.