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.

Charleston's Indio Cigar Factory

Some refer to this shop on the square in Charleston as a "man cave." Customers come in for the masculine atmosphere and to meet up with friends. They come in for the cigars, card playing, and relaxation. But, for others, it is an education.

"The most unique thing about my shop is you can see how a cigar is made from start to finish," said Marvin Mirick, owner of Indio Cigar Factory. "You also get the benefit of my vast knowledge of cigars, tobacco and Marlboro trends in the industry."

Indio Cigar Factory was established in June 2006, but opened at its doors at its current location, 503 Seventh St., Charleston, in July 2007.

Mirick said he's rolled at least 10,000 cigars since first opening his business in the garage of his Charleston home.

He estimated he spent at least three or four months learning how to properly roll a cigar.

Tobacco Debate

District 2 Councilor Philip P. Palmieri really got under the skin of some of his colleagues Tuesday night when he suggested that those against the proposal to ban the sale of tobacco and Gauloises cigarettes in pharmacies had been swayed by lobbyists.

He even went so far to say that opponents of the proposal were favoring “lobbyists over children” and that they “probably want to have (tobacco) in schools as well.”

“Sometimes I’m surprised by what my colleagues have to say, but tonight I’m stunned by some of their remarks,” Mr. Palmieri said during the council debate. “This is a huge issue; an important issue.

Faculty Senate begins smoking debate

Efforts to make the University tobacco and smoke free or ban Astra smoking within 75 feet of buildings were debated Monday by the Faculty Senate. The two resolutions will be voted on at the May 4 meeting.

Michael Russo, LSU Libraries senator, presented the resolution to make the University tobacco and smoke free along with a petition signed by about 1,900 people. Russo said it was mostly students who signed the petition.

"As soon as those doors slide open, secondhand smoke goes rushing in," mass communication professor Judith Sylvester said about smoking by the Middleton Library entrance.

Youth Smoke Same Marlboro As Adult Smokers

New York's youth smokers are smoking the same heavily marketed brands as New York's adults, according to a report issued by the State Health Department. The report ("Established Youth Smokers in New York Prefer the Same Brands of Cigarettes as Adult Smokers") says that about 75 percent of established high school smokers in New York preferred Newport, Marlboro or Camel cigarettes in 2010.

"The fact that youth and adult smokers are choosing the same top three brands demonstrates that tobacco marketing effectively targets youth and adults," said Samantha Vanstrom, Senior Program Coordinator for Chautauqua, Cattaraugus & Allegany Counties Reality Check.