{"id":51219,"date":"2024-04-23T15:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/?p=51219"},"modified":"2024-04-23T16:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T16:53:43","slug":"groundbreaking-or-ineffective-sheffield-gives-its-thoughts-on-the-smoking-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/04\/23\/groundbreaking-or-ineffective-sheffield-gives-its-thoughts-on-the-smoking-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking or ineffective?: Sheffield gives its thoughts on the smoking ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People in Sheffield are divided over the effectiveness of the smoking bill that has been passed in Parliament.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tobacco and Vapes Bill forbids anyone turning 15 and younger from 2024 from buying cigarettes. It also aims to make vapes less appealing to the youth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smokefree Sheffield, an organisation which hopes to create \u2018a future without tobacco\u2019, shared their thoughts online, saying : \u201cThis bill has the potential to be a game changer and will protect children and young people from ever becoming addicted to tobacco in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcoming and supporting today\u2019s Tobacco and Vapes Bill which will create a smokefree generation and tackle youth vaping.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/utBQ4dunpQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/utBQ4dunpQ<\/a> (1\/4)<\/p>&mdash; Smokefree Sheffield (@smokefreesheff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smokefreesheff\/status\/1770474236223586315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They added: \u201cIt is simply unacceptable that these [vape] products are being marketed to children. The proposed new regulations on packaging, advertising and point of sale are welcomed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local.gov.uk\/case-studies\/smoke-free-sheffield-comprehensive-approach-making-smoking-obsolete#_ednref2\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.local.gov.uk\/case-studies\/smoke-free-sheffield-comprehensive-approach-making-smoking-obsolete#_ednref2\">research<\/a> commissioned by Smokefree Sheffield in 2023, there are almost 60,000 smokers in Sheffield and it causes 1000 deaths per year. Around six percent of year 10 pupils are regular smokers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andrew Lee, Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield, in an article published on <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk-smoking-ban-would-have-many-benefits-for-public-health-but-only-if-its-effectively-implemented-228224\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk-smoking-ban-would-have-many-benefits-for-public-health-but-only-if-its-effectively-implemented-228224\">The Conversation<\/a> website, put forward the other considerations that arise with the public health benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The professor wrote that the first thing that would facilitate the effectiveness of the smoking ban is how the government carries out its implementation. Illicit sales of cigarettes to younger people is a huge problem in the UK, making up 18% of all tobacco trade, he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Secondly, public support for the legislation is crucial for it to be effective. Several MPs have voiced their opposition to the bill, arguing it is an infringement of personal freedom to prevent adults from buying cigarettes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Lee proposed that a \u2018comprehensive package\u2019 of measures is needed to bring down smoking rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maria Yakovleva, a biomedical student at the University of Sheffield, said: \u201cI believe it would create a market in the illegal realm. There\u2019s always a way to buy cigarettes. People could go abroad and start smoking there and get hooked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They added: \u201cI\u2019m above that age where I can buy cigarettes so, sucks to be 15 I guess.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People living in the most deprived areas, like Darnall and Burngreave are three times more likely to take up smoking. Smoking costs the city \u00a3361.5m through lost productivity, according to Smokefree Sheffield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People in Sheffield are divided over the effectiveness of the smoking bill that has been passed in Parliament.&nbsp; The Tobacco and Vapes Bill forbids anyone turning 15 and younger from 2024 from buying cigarettes. It also aims to make vapes less appealing to the youth.&nbsp; Smokefree Sheffield, an organisation which hopes to create \u2018a future [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":51234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[154,8],"tags":[490,488,489],"class_list":["post-51219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-environment-2","category-health","tag-professor-andrew-lee","tag-smokefree-sheffield","tag-smoking-ban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51219"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51281,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51219\/revisions\/51281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shef-live.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}