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Council to ban smoking outdoors and some people really aren’t happy about it

Dr Adam Briggs, the public health official leading the strategy, said: "It is impossible to be on the wrong side of history with tobacco consumption." Well not by the some of the comments on social...

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-06-01 15:53
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A county is set to become the first place in the country to ban smoking outdoors as lockdown ends – as it aims to become smoke free by 2025.

It comes as data suggests there were nearly eight million deaths associated with smoking in 2019, and 89 per cent of new smokers were addicted by the age of 25, global data suggests.

The number of smokers worldwide increased to 1.1 billion in 2019, with tobacco smoking causing 7.7 million deaths – including one in five deaths in males worldwide.

Researchers say the global number of smokers continues to rise, and there is particular concern over persistently high rates of smoking among young people.

Given that the large majority of new smokers become addicted by age 25, protecting young people from nicotine addiction during this window will be crucial to eliminate tobacco use among the next generation, experts suggest.

Oxfordshire

The ban in Oxfordshire will see smoking banned outside bars and restaurants – as well as outside office workplaces.

Oxfordshire could be the first county in England to go smoke-free by the year 2025, as a plan agreed by public health officials before the pandemic began in February last year finally gets underway.

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A crackdown on smoking in will begin in earnest as lockdown ends, with outdoor dining areas and workplace fag break spots as the top targets to go smoke-free.

The priorities for the county’s smoking strategy this year include creating more spaces where people feel ’empowered’ not to smoke.

This would include encouraging employers to stop the habit outside offices and factories, or by creating smoke-free areas in newly created pavement dining areas.

Oxfordshire’s public health director, Ansaf Azhar last week described the strategy as a “long game” to change smoking culture, with the aim of preventing deaths from diseases linked to tobacco.

“It is not about telling people not to smoke,” he said.

“It is about moving and creating an environment in which not smoking is encouraged and they are empowered to do so.

“But that is not going to happen overnight.”

Dr Adam Briggs, the public health official leading the strategy, added: “We have got a condition that is entirely a commercially driven cause of death and disease.

“It is impossible to be on the wrong side of history with tobacco consumption.”

He also referred to figures given by the chief medical officer Chris Whitty at a recent conference, who said more than 90,000 people died from tobacco related diseases in 2020, compared with 75,000 from Covid.

Preventable deaths

A report by Dr Briggs said smoking was the leading cause of preventable deaths in Oxfordshire, costing £120m to the public purse each year.

While 12 per cent of Oxfordshire’s population currently smoke, people earning lower incomes, those with mental illnesses, the homeless and travellers, all have a higher rate of smoking.

Andrew McHugh, a member of the health improvement partnership board, said he had asked Cherwell District Council, where he is a councillor, to make all new pavement licenses smoke-free.

Pavement licenses allow restaurants and bars to place tables and chairs outside their premises.

The council denied the request, saying that the easing of coronavirus restrictions was not the time to impose more rules on businesses.

But Dr Briggs asked members of the board, who sit on different councils around Oxfordshire, to make similar requests in the near future.

A pro-smoking campaign group called The Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco (Forest) has criticised the plans.

Simon Clark, director of the smokers’ lobby group Forest, said: “It’s no business of local councils if adults choose to smoke, and if they smoke outside during working hours that’s a matter for them and their employer not the council.”

Smoke-free is officially recognised by the Government as when five per cent of the population or less are smokers.

Reactions

Some people might see it as a positive move to improve the health of society, but it seems it has been tarred with the ‘woke’ brush in the on-going culture war.

1.

Oxfordshire is set to ban smoking outside as the lockdown comes to an end.

Yet more petty authoritarianism. Personal responsibility and choice is being replaced by a misanthropic health and safety “thou shall not” culture. https://t.co/h3G0o9PKzL

— James Melville (@JamesMelville) June 1, 2021

2.

‘Public health’ needs to be put back in its box https://t.co/2M9nYLHUUC

— James Bloodworth (@J_Bloodworth) June 1, 2021

3.

In case you’re wondering what Public Health zealots have in store for next: smokers 1st Next? drinkers?

The move will see smoking at outside bars restaurants & offices banned & will also see creation of spaces where people feel ’empowered’ not to smoke”https://t.co/DCxp22URlT

— Alan D Miller (@alanvibe) June 1, 2021

4.

I don’t smoke anymore, but this is some serious Nanny State Bullsh**!https://t.co/Jkc71Gi9er

— JF_Telegram (@TelegramJf) June 1, 2021

5.

@JamesDelingpole The march of the health fascists continues apace. https://t.co/GyuN9h90K9

“The priorities for the county’s smoking strategy this year include creating more spaces where people feel ’empowered’ not to smoke”.

I’m feeling ’empowered’ to start again….

— Jim Craig (@chilpotle) June 1, 2021

6.

@JamesDelingpole The march of the health fascists continues apace. https://t.co/GyuN9h90K9

“The priorities for the county’s smoking strategy this year include creating more spaces where people feel ’empowered’ not to smoke”.

I’m feeling ’empowered’ to start again….

— Jim Craig (@chilpotle) June 1, 2021

7.

What happened to that wonderful free country I thought I grew up in? Perhaps it never was, perhaps it was all just an illusion.

Oxfordshire to BAN smoking outdoors as it becomes first ‘smoke-free’ county in Englandhttps://t.co/DIsuCmcR6w

— Lee (@VictoryDay_Hope) June 1, 2021

8.

Oxfordshire to BAN smoking outdoors in bid to stamp out habit by 2025 – The Sun . What a load of bullshit , i can understand the smoking ban indoors but this is infringement in of our freedom outside of buildings Oxfordshire a county of twats https://t.co/K5jO0xcNkD

— Daniel (@Daniel47408850) June 1, 2021

9.

What a bunch of losershttps://t.co/R4rqHpgPnT

— The Truth Finder… (@MilT31579671) June 1, 2021

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