Transcript (Attachment: 3)FRESH NE Presentation

Stockton Borough Council
Housing and Community Safety Select
Committee:
Review of Tobacco Control
25th October 2012
Catherine Taylor, Fresh
Richard Ferry, North East Trading Standards
Association
Each year smoking causes the greatest
number of preventable deaths
Traffic:
2,502
Alcohol:
6,541
Smoking:
81,400
Obesity:
34,100
Suicide:
5,377
References:
1. ASH Factsheet, Smoking Statistics: illness & death, October 2011 (http://ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_107.pdf) NB area represents value
HIV:
529
Drug misuse:
1,738
Good progress in the North East
The North East comprehensive
tobacco control programme
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Developing infrastructure, skills and capacity
Reducing exposure to secondhand smoke
Helping smokers to stop
Media, communications and education
Reducing availability and supply
Reducing tobacco promotion
Tobacco regulation
Research, monitoring and evaluation
Recent activity
Overall the latest figures show a decline in the
illicit trade – however intelligence shows
Children as young as 8 – 10 are being sold
cigarettes
Dealers will sell singles to children on their way
to and from school
Traders are becoming more sophisticated and
organised, targeting and exploiting
communities
- but effective joint action is taking place-
Key regulatory issues
A lethal product: a childhood addiction, not an adult choice
High levels of public support for protecting children from tobacco
Ensuring continued compliance with current legislation e.g.
•smokefree legislation
•underage sales
•vending machines
•point of sale displays
Reducing the demand for and the supply of illicit tobacco – the
North of England programme
•comprehensive approach
•impact
What next? Standardised
packaging
The problem
The solution
What next?
Continued effective enforcement of existing
legislation
A recognition that the job is not done: need
to call for appropriate regulation for a lethal
product
including - tobacco licensing / registration
smokefree playgrounds / outdoor spaces
For the Select Committee
to consider:
 Is there sufficient capacity to carry out tobacco
control regulatory duties?
 Are there intelligence protocols in place so that
enforcement agencies can work together
effectively?
 Are there policies in place around sales of illicit
tobacco on council premises/in social housing?
 Is the council considering making playgrounds
smokefree?
 Is there a policy in place against working with the
tobacco industry?
For more information
Catherine Taylor
Fresh
0191 333 7142
[email protected]
Richard Ferry
North East Trading Standards Association
07946 549 613
[email protected]
www.freshne.com
www.illicittobacconorth.org
www.keep-it-out.co.uk