ASH Burns Its Fingers

ASH says that plain packaging, which is not in effect yet, explains why *last year's* smoking rate is lowest ever https://t.co/DUuxKnkMJR

— Ben Southwood (@bswud) September 20, 2016

Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the campaign group Action on Smoking and Health (Ash), said:

“The continuing decline in smoking prevalence is a tribute to many years when successive governments have implemented comprehensive and progressive tobacco control strategies, including tax rises, mass media campaigns, anti-smuggling measures, smoke-free laws, advertising bans, and last but not least getting rid of tobacco displays and glitzy tobacco packaging.”

It's all very well to crow about the "effectiveness" of plain packs, but ASH seem to have "forgotten" that plain packs didn't come into the UK until May 2016. The decline in smoking stats refer to 2015 and earlier.

Most likely the increased use of vaps accounts for the decline, certainly not plain packs.

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EU To tax E Fags

Despite the fact that e fags are meant to help wean smokers off real fags, our EU overlords see an opportunity to make some money and have decided to tax them in the same manner as real fags.

As per the EUobserver EU countries are preparing to tax e-cigarettes under the same regime as normal cigarettes, in a move likely to increase prices and to prompt a fight among corporate lobbyists in Brussels.

Last Friday (26 February), member states’ ambassadors agreed to take the first step by asking the European Commission to draft an “appropriate legislative proposal” in 2017.

EU Nanny never misses a trick to screw even more taxes out of her hapless subjects!

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Nanny Hates Fags - Welsh Nanny's Preconceived Prejudices

Oh dear, poor old Nanny, it seems that newly published research has fatally holed below the waterline Nanny's oft repeated claim that e-cigarettes attract non-smokers.


The Welsh Health Survey asked regular users of vaping devices if they had previously been tobacco users, almost every single respondent said yes.

Of the 3,565 people aged 16 and older spoken by the Welsh Health Survey, only 1% of adults said they were e-cigarette users who had never smoked before.

Suffice to say, because the results do not support Welsh Nanny's preconceived prejudices, Welsh Nanny has rejected the findings!

E-cigarettes are set to be banned in enclosed public spaces and work spaces under the Welsh Government’s Public Health Bill.

A Welsh Government spokesman is quoted by Wales Online:

“Our proposals are based on evidence from across the world, including peer-reviewed academic research.

The BMA, public health professionals and others support our proposals, while the World Health Organisation and other international bodies have called for greater regulation of e-cigarettes. 40 other countries have already taken similar steps.

It would restrict the use of e-cigarettes in enclosed public spaces, bringing them into line with conventional cigarettes.”

Bollocks, e fags are not cigarettes..PERIOD!

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Go On, Have a Fag!

It seems that Nanny has got herself into a wee bit of a tizzy over e fags.

On the one side she wants them prescribed on the NHS, on the other (according to The Lancet) research that showed how nice e fags are was biased.

My thanks to Dick Puddlecote for alerting me to the the further confusion within Nanny's ranks, as evidenced by PHE's rebuttal of The Lancet.

It seems to me that the issue is now so stressful, that Nanny and everyone else should just chill out and have a fag!

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Nanny's Dodgy E Fags Advice

Less than a fortnight ago I wrote that Nanny was considering prescribing e fags on the NHS:

"Nanny has had something of a volte farce recently over e fags (or vaps as they are sometimes referred to).

Despite earlier misgivings about e fags being to "route to smoking", Nanny has now decreed that e fags are the route to "salvation" from smokers.

Public Health England asked a group of "experts" (pass the sick bag someone) to study "evidence". Their conclusion was that e fags are 95% less harmful than tobacco. This is amusingly ironic, given that in Wales the government there wants to ban e fags in public.

Anyhoo, that aside, Nanny is now considering prescribing e fags on the NHS."

Now here's the funny thing, it transpires that Public Health England based its recommendation on a study conducted in 2014 by scientists in the pay of the e-cigarette industry. 

 

The Lancet revealed that three of the 11 authors of the original study were paid advisors for the e-cigarette industry. The editors of the journal European Addiction Research even issued a warning alongside the article saying there was a ‘potential conflict of interest.’

PHE failed to declare the warning when they presented findings to journalists at a briefing in London.

Funny that!
 

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Nanny Loves E Fags

Nanny has had something of a volte farce recently over e fags (or vaps as they are sometimes referred to).

Despite earlier misgivings about e fags being to "route to smoking", Nanny has now decreed that e fags are the route to "salvation" from smokers.

Public Health England asked a group of "experts" (pass the sick bag someone) to study "evidence". Their conclusion was that e fags are 95% less harmful than tobacco. This is amusingly ironic, given that in Wales the government there wants to ban e fags in public.

Anyhoo, that aside, Nanny is now considering prescribing e fags on the NHS.

Errmm....am I the only one to spot the idiocy of this?

Given that someone who smokes is trying to quit, why cannot he/she used the money saved on buying fags to pay for the e fags?

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Anti Smoking Nazis On The March

The anti smoking Nazis are no the march again. This time their target are those who smoke in pub gardens.

The Royal Society for Public Health want the public smoking ban extended to beer gardens, al fresco eating areas of restaurants, parks, and outside school gates. The Nazis want smoking to be seen as "abnormal" and more controls put in place where people gather.

Fuck off!

Who is to determine what is "normal" or "abnormal"??

How arrogant these people are!

Shirley Cramer, head of that organ, is quoted by the BBC:

"Children are hugely receptive to the behaviour of the adults around them. The sight therefore of individuals smoking at prominent locations risks teaching them that smoking is a normal and safe habit.

We believe that banning smoking in these locations via an exclusion zone could further denormalise smoking, ensuring that it is seen as an abnormal activity and potentially, prevent children and young people from beginning in the future."

The organisation also called for:

• All places selling cigarettes to be forced to also offer e-cigarettes
• Greater use of e-cigarettes by smoking cessation services
• A new system to license places that can sell cigarettes
• And for e-cigarettes to be renamed vapourisers or nicotine control products as the term was misleading

Fuck off!

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Welsh Nanny Bans E Fags

I see that Welsh Nanny has decided to ban people using e fags in enclosed spaces (including lorries and taxis) as from 2017.

Based on no scientific evidence whatsoever, Nanny has decided that the sight of someone wafting on a vap (I believe that to be the term for it) in an enclosed space may encourage kids to smoke real fags.

I think that is utter bollocks, given that an e fag looks nothing like a real fag!

More to the point, what have the dimensions of the space in which you vap got to do with the likelihood of a kid deciding to start smoking real fags?

It is ridiculous and unenforceable!

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E's Good!

As per Reason.com a new study of leading American and British brands, reported in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, notes that the levels of potentially problematic substances in e-cigarette aerosol are about the same as those detected in ambient air.

In other words, Nanny should stop claiming that e fags are dangerous!

Sadly I suspect that Nanny will ignore this research and continue to try to regulate e fags.

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E Fags Are Great!

Oh dear what a confusing world we live in, when it comes to trying to determine whether we should smoke a fag or an e fag!

Loyal readers will recall that recently WHO, the organisation that is doing a "great" job of controlling the Ebola outbreak, was bemoaning the dangers of smoking e fags indoors lest people breath in second hand vapours.

Additionally, yesterday, I noted that some "research" had been carried out int eh USA that warned that smoking e fags would lead people to illicit substance abuse.

Well, barely 24 hours on, and other experts in the filed have denounced all this scare mongering as bollocks.

For every million smokers who switch to e-cigarettes, more than 6,000 lives a year could be saved, according to the University College London team.

The National Addiction Centre based at King's College London and the Tobacco Dependence Unit at Queen Mary University noted that the assumptions made by WHO were "misleading" (that's science speak for "bollocks").

Professor Robert West of UCL is quoted by the BBC:

"You have to be a bit crazy to carry on smoking conventional cigarettes when there are e-cigarettes available

The vapour contains nothing like the concentrations of carcinogens and toxins as cigarette smoke.

In fact, concentrations are almost all well below a twentieth of cigarettes."

Confused?

Don't be, simply start smoking cigars and pipes; clearly they are the least dangerous of all!

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Fags Healthier Than E Fags

According to "research" carried out in the USA the use of e fags may be the route to using illicit substances.

Therefore, are we now to assume that real fags are healthier than e fags?

Will Nanny be encouraging us to smoke real fags in order to wean us off e fags?

What a confusing world we live in!

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Nanny Bans E Fags

Oh dear, not content with trying to ban the smoking of fags indoors, Nanny (in the form of WHO) is trying to ban the use of e fags indoors as well.

For why?

WHO claims that the fumes are marginally toxic to bystanders.

Pish posh!

Short of using an e fag with a plastic bag over your head I doubt that these devices are anymore dangerous than aerosols or car fumes (sorry car fumes are way more dangerous, but WHO don't seem to be doing anything about banning cars!).

In fact, even the anti smoking lobby thinks that WHO is talking bollocks. Hazel Cheeseman, director of policy and research at Action on Smoking and Health, in the Telegraph said there was "no evidence of any harm to bystanders from use of these devices".

The WHO report is another example of bollocks science, used by single issue fetishists to support their political agenda.

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Nanny Hates Fags - But Loves Money

As loyal readers know, Nanny absolutely hates fags and does her level best to stop us smoking.

However, not all in Nanny's garden is as rosy or as clear cut as that. Ladies and Gentlemen I present HM Treasury's open consultation on Minimum Excise Tax.

In brief Nanny is worried that we are smoking less, and that when we do smoke we are smoking cheaper stuff (eg roll ups).

For why is she worried?

The less we smoke, and the cheaper we smoke, the less tax revenue she raises!

AHA!

The solution?

A minimum excise tax that would increase Nanny's profits from our smoking. The document then goes on to explain how that would work, and how much extra revenue it would generate.

Hypocrisy?

Nanny?

Never!

One amusing point though, despite the document covering all manner of fag type matters (eg roll ups and counterfeits etc), it fails to mention the effect on the market of e fags. Rather a serious omission I would say!

Anyhoo, those of you who want to help Nanny out of a financial hole should do the decent thing and start smoking 20 cigars a day; for Queen and country!

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Prats of The Week - Caerphilly Council

Well done Caerphilly council for winning this week's Prats of The Week Award.

The council has won the award for its ludicrous ban on staff using electronic cigarettes in Caerphilly council-owned buildings and vehicles.

The council claims that the policy strengthened its efforts to make its premises a healthy and smoke-free work environment for employees and visitors.

All very well if e fags are dangerous to third parties, they are not!

Also the ban does not cover members of the public who visit council premises.

Christine Forehead, cabinet member for human resources and governance, is quoted by the BBC:

"As a council we recognise that smoking is the single most preventable cause of illness, premature death and health inequality throughout the United Kingdom. 

Exposure to second-hand smoke is also a cause of ill health and it is estimated to contribute to around 600,000 deaths globally a year.

This policy strengthens our efforts to make council premises a healthy, smoke-free work environment for employees and visitors."

The above diatribe against smoking has nothing whatsoever to do with e fags.

Caerphilly council, well deserving Prats of The Week!


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