ANTI-CIGS AID STUBBED OUT Smokers forced to quit alone
A VICTIM of the Florida airport gun rampage was last night named as British great-gran Olga Woltering, 84.
Her church in Atlanta posted: “Olga was so charming, calling everybody ‘lovey’ or ‘love’ in her British accent.”
She, husband Ralph and their three children are thought g to have left I Ipswich for the US in the 1970s.
Her son Tim said: ““She had a smile o or a hug for all. Mum was a blessing to us.”
The FBI believes E Esteban Santiago, 26, deliberately f flew to Fort L Lauderdale from Alaska to carry out Friday’s attack, in which five died.
Iraq war veteran Santiago shot with his legally checked-in 9mm gun.
FBI agent George Piro said Santiago was talking and “the indications are he came here to carry out the attack”.
Santiago has allegedly told the FBI the CIA was forcing him to join ISIS. SERVICES that help people quit smoking are being hit by cuts to public health grants.
Figures show local anti-smoking schemes will lose 61 per cent of their funding while five per cent will shut during the 2016-17 financial year.
Labour, which released data from the Association of Directors of Public Health, also blasted a lack of progress in publishing a new Tobacco Control Plan. This is the Government’s strategy to cut tobacco use and was meant to be released in mid-2016.
Shadow Public Health Minister Sharon Hodgson said: “Current Government policy will not help smokers kick the habit. Health Ministers must set their own New Year’s resolution and commit to helping more people give up smoking by rethinking their approach to public health funding.” Last month, Health Minister Nicola Blackwood praised anti-smoking services. She said: “Smokers who use English stop smoking services are up to four times as likely to quit successfully.”
Under-18s were able to illegally buy vaping products in nine out of 10 shops during a trading standards swoop in Sandwell, West Midlands.