{"id":16310,"date":"2016-11-11T16:52:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=16310"},"modified":"2016-11-11T16:52:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T16:52:54","slug":"public-health-bill-smoke-free-areas-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/politics-social-justice\/public-health-bill-smoke-free-areas-wales","title":{"rendered":"Bill proposal to create more smoke-free areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>A bill to restrict smoking in children-populated spaces\u00a0is being discussed in the Welsh\u00a0Assembly.<\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.wales\/topics\/health\/nhswales\/bill\/?lang=en\">Public Health (Wales) Bill<\/a> aims to introduce new smoking bans\u00a0in schoolyards, hospital grounds and public playgrounds, on top of closing\u00a0loopholes that currently allow minors to get hold of nicotine products.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16773\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16773\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Kids-smoking.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16773 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Kids-smoking.jpg\" alt=\"Kids social smoking\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Kids-smoking.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Kids-smoking-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Kids-smoking-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16773\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16773 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Kids-smoking.jpg\" alt=\"Kids social smoking\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Kids-smoking.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Kids-smoking-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Kids-smoking-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <em>The ban fits into a wider effort to curb smoking habits among young people (ph: Valentin Ottone via Flickr)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nCatherine Floyd, Registrar for Publich Health Wales, said: &#8220;The best enforcement against smoking comes in the form of social unacceptability.\u00a0The less smoking is seen as normal, the less likely other people are to start.<br \/>\n&#8220;Children and young people often do what they see, so adults can be important smokefree role models. That&#8217;s why we operate programs like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justbsmokefree.wales\/public\/home.php\">JustB SmokeFree<\/a>, a smoking prevention scheme for schools.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe new regulations\u00a0aim to reduce young people&#8217;s exposure to passive smoke, which\u00a0makes them more likely to become active smokers. They also prohibit sellers from &#8220;handing over&#8221; &#8211; rather than merely &#8220;selling&#8221; &#8211; nicotine products to minors, to curb on online cigarette buying.<br \/>\nLast May, Wales has imposed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ashwales.org.uk\/en\/whats-new\/ugly-cigarette-packs-arrive-in-welsh-shops\">&#8220;plain&#8221; or &#8220;ugly&#8221; packaging for cigarettes<\/a>, to make them less visually appealing to young consumers. The sale of e-cigarettes to under-18s has also been illegal since October 2015.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16772\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16772\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Cigarette-packs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-16772 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Cigarette-packs.jpg\" alt=\"Cigarettes will soon be sold in &quot;ugly&quot; packaging to make them less appealing.\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Cigarette-packs.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Cigarette-packs-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Cigarette-packs-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16772\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-16772 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Cigarette-packs.jpg\" alt=\"Cigarettes will soon be sold in &quot;ugly&quot; packaging to make them less appealing.\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Cigarette-packs.jpg 600w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Cigarette-packs-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/11\/Cigarette-packs-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <em>Cigarettes are now starting to be sold in &#8220;ugly&#8221; packaging, making them less appealing (ph: Sludge G via Flickr)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAnti-smoking charity Ash Wales identifies <a href=\"http:\/\/ashwales.org.uk\/en\/information-resources\/topics\/smoking-and-young-people\">young people as the &#8220;main target&#8221; for tobacco producers<\/a>, since &#8220;they are the only ones who can replace their lifelong, but dying, customers&#8221;.<br \/>\nAmong other measures, the bill would\u00a0ban intimate piercing on under-16s and create\u00a0a mandatory licensing scheme for practitioners of body piercing, tattooing and\u00a0acupuncture. Discussion\u00a0is currently at stage one, where the Assembly discusses the general principles of the bill.<br \/>\nIf you need help quitting, or for any information on smoking and health, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stopsmokingwales.com\/\">Stop Smoking Wales<\/a> or call\u00a0<strong>0800 085 2219<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill wants to make schools and playgrounds smoke-free, among other regulations to protect young people&#8217;s health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":16778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-16310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-social-justice","category-sport-health"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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