Tobacco tsar to cut smoking deaths
THE job of tobacco tsar has been created for the first time in North Lincolnshire.
The £40,000-a-year officer will be tasked with driving down the number of smoking-related deaths in the county.
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STUBBING IT OUT: A role is to be created in North Lincolnshire to help reduce the number of smoking-related deaths.
The smoking tsar job is a joint project between NHS North Lincolnshire and North Lincolnshire Council, with the funding coming from the Department of Health (DoH).
The main task for the successful candidate will be to drive down the number of smokers the region has, through support and advice.
Coun Len Foster, deputy leader of North Lincolnshire Council, said: "Smoking is one of the leading causes of health inequality and premature morbidity.
"I welcome this joint initiative with the NHS North Lincolnshire to create a new Tobacco Control Co-ordinator."
Most recent figures, released last year, show around one smoker will die each day in North Lincolnshire, while three non-smokers per year are killed by second-hand smoke.
A DoH spokesman said: "It is good news that another local council has appointed a local tobacco control co-ordinator whose contribution will help in reducing the burden of ill-health to the local people and the local economy."
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by john, Scunny
Monday, July 06 2009, 2:12PM
“Another really useful job created at North Lincs Council.
£40k to sit in an office to talk and write about how to do things.
When the average salary in Scunthorpe is really low it's amazing to see how many people are employed in Pittwood House on big salaries and practically do very little.
I suppose the role models they have: Councillors, set a great example, making promises and doing nothing ! It would be interesting to see how much is spent on the council's thousands of staff sat in offices all day doing nothing much that is really effective.”
by J. Brooks, Avoiding Taxville
Monday, July 06 2009, 1:47PM
“Dont worry, these public sector parasites along with associated pensions wont last much longer, tax receipts collapsing, gilt auctions failing. No more money in the pot, come 2010 the IMF will be sacking 20% of them as a pre-condition for bailing us out. I'll be dringing champers that day.”
by Elvis Parsley, Digby street
Sunday, July 05 2009, 6:37PM
“Late reply for Me on thr Trail .
Give me a gun and you wouldnt need a tsar to get rid of the bent git .”
by villager, local
Sunday, July 05 2009, 12:46PM
“phred....if you decide to quit smoking you have to pay for the chewing gum,tablets or whatever helps...but if youre a druggy you get it free...so dont start saying we cost the NHS millions a year.at least smoking is legal.”
by villager, local
Sunday, July 05 2009, 12:42PM
“hey ,lets hope this tsar stops all smoking in the uk.....because the country will be in even more of a mess,the government get a collossal amount of tax from tabacco goods.Another Labour Party farce.”
by G.Etreal, Down South
Sunday, July 05 2009, 12:07PM
“The heaviest smokers in society - and the most likely to kill themselves are those in the lowest class, particularly those on the dole.
The large tax take from cigarette duty is a jolly good way of recovering some of the money wasted by the government on welfare handouts to these wasters who won't work, and are more than happy to spend their days sitting, smoking, watching Jeremy Kyle and the like on their plasma tellys.
Its a waste of time and resources to try and get this lot to give up smoking.”
by me, on the trail
Sunday, July 05 2009, 4:54AM
“I have advised FRED (phred) to get his medication changed. However he is as usual ignoring any sensible information given. Also tried to get the ward manager to restrict his IT access to Childrens BBC Games only.”
by intrested, scunny
Saturday, July 04 2009, 10:14PM
“well phred where s your reply to phil from leicester the guys right so eat humble pie and stand in the corner”
by Pete, Ashby
Saturday, July 04 2009, 7:55PM
“You can tell we have a Labour government can't you? Another overpaid, pointless, nonsense state job created at great expense to the struggling taxpayer and cocking a snook at the ranks of the unemployed. A tobacco tsar? Whatever next? The salt-intake Stasi? Eck, maybe I've given Gormless Gordon another idea for spending our cash.”
by hazel, scunthorpe
Saturday, July 04 2009, 6:17PM
“What a flaming waste of the publics money, if people want to smoke themselved to death let them, there has been plenty of money spent warning them if they havent the sense to heed the warnings there is no point in throwing good money after bad.”