No smoker wants to harm other people, but with second-hand smoke they unintentionally do. Some people are especially vulnerable to tobacco chemicals: children, pregnant women, people with common pre-existing but usually invisible health conditions like asthma, diabetes or coronary heart disease. This led to rapid improvements in health including around 1,200 fewer heart attack admissions and many fewer asthma admissions in children in the first year alone. The tobacco industry drives health inequality, harms the economy through ill health including during the working age and causes a burden on the NHS - far outweighing the tax receipts. Ensuring a smoke-free generation, protecting families and vulnerable people from involuntary second-hand smoke and preventing some of the tricks used to market cigarettes and vapes to children will have substantial long-term benefits to the health of the public.

Britain’s Conservative Party made history last weekend, becoming the country’s first major party to elect a Black woman as leader. And yet this milestone was reached not by a party of the progressive center-left but by Britain’s oldest and most traditional conservative political force. “I’m glad because it shows that my country and my party are actually places where it doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like,” the new leader, Kemi Badenoch, told the BBC on Sunday. After all, the Conservatives have broken glass ceilings before, picking all three of Britain’s female prime ministers, as well as its first leader who wasn’t white, Rishi Sunak. Now 44, Ms. Badenoch was born in London and raised in Nigeria, returning to Britain when she was 16.

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have tied with three votes each in the tiny New Hampshire town that traditionally kicks off voting on election day. Since the 1960s, voters in Dixville Notch, close to the Canadian border, have gathered just after midnight to cast their ballots. Votes are then counted and results announced – hours before other states open their polls. According to CNN, four registered Republicans and two undeclared voters took part in the vote just after midnight on Tuesday

Former NSW Liberal energy minister Matt Kean debated his former Coalition colleagues about the cost of nuclear power in a parliamentary estimates hearing on Monday. Now chair of the Climate Change Authority, Kean debated Nationals senator Ross Cadell over CSIRO analysis which found nuclear was the most expensive form of large-scale energy available

Mitchell's auction house held the sale last week, featuring more than 700 lots of both modern and vintage tools. A Lincoln Powertec 250c MIG welder (Image: Supplied) Mitchells are now gearing up for their Maritime and Transport Sale, scheduled for Thursday, November 7, starting at 10am. A watercolour painting by Victorian artist William Mackenzie Thomson (Image: Supplied) A 1922 shipwright's shipbuilding manual is also on offer and is expected to fetch between £100 and £200. A 1922 shipwright's shipbuilding manual (Image: Supplied) For those interested in marine equipment, a Vetus Bowthruster 7.5 kgf is expected to sell for between £400 and £800. The auction house will display the lots in the saleroom on Wednesday from 10am to 7pm.

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris delivered their closing arguments, holding duelling rallies across the battleground states well into the night, on the last day of campaigning before the US election. Harris was in Pennsylvania, the biggest swing state and crucial to the Democratic campaign. She held the final rally of her campaign at the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Introduced by Oprah Winfrey and Lady Gaga, Harris emphasised her message of hope. Trump struck a darker tone in the same state, with threats to put tariffs on all imports from Mexico unless it stopped people from entering the US.

How the election works in 100 wordsEach state is worth a number of points known as "electoral college votes" related to the population of the state. California, the most populous US state, has 54 electoral college votes representing its 39 million population. In almost all states, if you win by just one vote, you get all the electoral college votes. There are 538 "points" in total. Most states are predictable - so it could all come down to seven swing states: Pennsylvania (19 electoral votes), Georgia (16), North Carolina (16), Michigan (15), Arizona (11), Wisconsin (10) and Nevada (6).

Israeli settlers torched 20 cars during an attack on Palestinian property on the outskirts of Ramallah on Monday, residents said, in one of their boldest raids yet in the area that serves as the Palestinians' seat of government in the occupied West Bank. Around a dozen attackers, masked and carrying petrol bombs, targeted the Al-Bireh area, which adjoins Ramallah, at about 3am, torching the cars in a matter of minutes. The Israeli police and the Shin Bet security agency were investigating after receiving a report that a number of Palestinian cars had been burned

(You can now subscribe to our(You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channelFormer British Indian home secretary Priti Patel has been chosen by the newly elected Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch as her shadow foreign secretary to join her top team on the Opposition benches in the House of Commons on Tuesday. "Congratulations to Kemi Badenoch on her election as leader of our great Party," posted Patel on X over the weekend after the election result was declared. "Let's all unite behind her to renew and earn back the trust of the British people. "In her first response as the new shadow minister, Trott called the tuition fee rise "a hike in the effective tax graduates have to pay. "With the Tories down to just 121 members of Parliament, Badenoch will have to hand multiple shadow briefs to some of her picks as many senior Tories have declined frontbench jobs as she prepares to chair her first shadow cabinet meeting as Opposition leader.

DSIT is also leading a scheme to create a new “digital centre” of government, boosting technology adoption across the public sector. “We are going to change this by experimenting with emerging technology to find new ways to save people time and make their lives easier, as we are doing with Gov.UK Chat. A small, private trial of the Gov.UK chatbot was conducted last year, with nearly 70% of the responses provided by the chatbot classed as helpful, but DSIT said the test also showed that more development was required to meet the high accuracy standards required for guidance on the government website. The Government also confirmed that stringent safety measures and guardrails have been put in place around the chatbot, with experts on AI safety and safeguarding techniques from the UK’s AI Safety Institute consulted on the chatbot’s development. DSIT acknowledged that some inaccurate and erroneous results were likely during the trial, given the emerging nature of generative AI, but said the test would provide information and insights needed to further improve the tool.

Roy Morgan finds the Coalition opening up a 51-49 lead on two-party preferred, after trailing 50.5-49.5 last time. The alternative two-party measure based on 2022 election flows has Labor leading 51-49, in from 51.5-48.5 last week. Strikingly, it credits the Coalition witha two-party lead of 51.4-48.6, based on polling data up to and including last week’s Roy Morgan result. The national figures from The Guardian aggregate are also worse for Labor than the accompanying state breakdowns, although the latter only track as far as September. Antcliff reportedly won a preselection vote by 24 to 16 ahead of local doctor Owen Boyd.

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Popular programmes such as Rivals, Heartstopper, Nobody Wants This and Agatha All Along continued to encourage Brits to spend evenings indoors, but the rise in prices has also seen many paying more to access popular TV services. How much do streaming services cost us a month? Streaming continues to boom, despite increases in prices pretty much across the board over the last 18 months. “The small screen continues to draw Brits to cosier evenings in, cutting back on evenings out at pubs, bars, and restaurants, instead enjoying streaming and shopping from the comfort of home. We’ll be keeping a close on whether consumer confidence holds in November and in the run up to Christmas.”

By The Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral WellnessThe Santa Barbara County Department of Behavioral Wellness is proud to announce the receipt of grant funding in the amount of $500,000 per year from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), awarded for the next four years. These funds will support additional staffing for the Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) services, improving care for individuals with serious mental illness (SMI). For more information on the AOT program, visit the Behavioral Wellness website here. For more information about the County of Santa Barbara Department of Behavioral Wellness, visit https://www.countyofsb.org/274/Behavioral-Wellness. For assistance accessing Behavioral Wellness services, call the 24/7 Crisis Response and Services Access Line at (888) 868-1649.

The King's Duchy of Lancaster estate makes £829,000 a year renting a warehouse to an NHS trust to keep ambulances. The investigation also revealed how the royal duchies receive millions from the armed forces, schools, prisons and fire and ambulance services. There's nothing unusual about the royals' tax affairs, Ben Goldsmith, a British financier and environmentalist, told The Telegraph. "The royal family owns stuff, like many families in this country. By taking a lead in supporting national unity and public services, "the royals could redefine their role in modern Britain".