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Irish Examiner
14 hours ago
- Health
- Irish Examiner
The Vapening: ‘In my school, I'd be in the minority for not vaping'
Though small, vapes leave a potent sweet trail behind which can be smelled in schools across the country, despite a ban on sales to children since December 2023, teenagers have told the Irish Examiner. One teen said she is a minority in her fifth-year class as a non-vaper, while another said teachers in her school have to chase vapers out of the bathrooms between classes. A third said some of his classmates started vaping as early as first year of secondary school. Some of the non-compliant vapes that were destroyed at the HSE offices in Naas, Co Kildare. Picture: Gareth Chaney Their experiences of how easy it is for school-children to still buy vapes or tobacco products comes as prosecutions under new laws ramp up led by the HSE National Environmental Health Service. The teenagers are members of the Foróige CRIB Youth & Family Support Project in Sligo. They studied the use of vapes, produced a report, and made a mock documentary, The Vapening. Ruth Bradley, 16, said: 'In my school I'd be more of a minority [for not vaping]. Honestly I don't like the smell.' They are also expensive, Ruth added. A still from 'The Vapening', a film made by teenagers who are members of the Foróige CRIB project in Sligo. You can view the film on ForoigeChannel on Youtube, or see link below. She described a school science experiment where they researched ingredients in cigarettes and e-cigarettes. 'That was an eye-opener for me,' she said. 'One ingredient in some vapes you could use for a disinfectant.' Wiktor Zuzewicz, 16, said he doesn't smoke or vape for health reasons. He said: You can't walk into a school bathroom and not have that smell — tons of people were vaping there. 'It's rare that you actually see the vapes now, people are hiding it more now.' He wants more supports for teens who want to quit, saying: 'Some of my classmates started in first year and they're still going.' Pearlgold Aideyan, 17, said vaping is more common than smoking across her age group. 'Some of my friends try to pressure me [to vape],' she said, adding: 'It's quite hard sometimes.' Disposable vapes in breach of regulations purchased in Waterford City. Picture: Joe Evans Pearlgold is already seeing people in her all-girls school cutting down because there are fewer places to buy vapes now. Girls can be suspended for vaping, she said, and since the teachers 'caught on' and check the toilets, it is becoming less common. Their mockumentary can be viewed here on the @ForoigeChannel on Youtube. They hope their satirical horror-film approach of reporting on vaping as an outbreak of an infectious disease will bring home a stop-vaping message. HSE prosecutions HSE environmental health officers monitor implementation of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023. They have successfully prosecuted 51 shops and businesses for selling vapes and tobacco products to under-18s last year. This included eight prosecutions specifically for vapes. Some shops were identified during sting operations when the HSE worked with teenage 'mystery shoppers' who tested the ban. Over the last two years, 22 prohibition orders were served for selling vapes with illegal nicotine content. Some 3,371 e-cigarettes and refill containers were removed. Last year, two businesses were successfully prosecuted in district courts and in 2022 so was an online business selling vapes from a private dwelling. Some 19 destruction orders were applied during 2022 and 2023. In 2023 they also seized 37.8 tonnes of illegal vapes or refills at ports and airports working with Customs and Revenue. Last year they seized 26.6 tonnes. HSE Assistant National Director for Environmental Health Ann Marie Part said: 'While the majority of retailers take active measures to confirm the age of someone buying tobacco or vape products, it is disappointing to see some retailers still selling to children. 'All it takes is a request for ID at the counter to ensure you are selling to someone over the legal age.' A display at the HSE offices in Naas, Co Kildare, of non-compliant vapes that are to be destroyed. Picture: Gareth Chaney The Irish Vape Vendors Association (IVVA) made submissions to Government on the age limits. Spokeswoman Joanne O'Connell said: 'IVVA shops have always been for over 18s.' Ms O'Connell, who heads up Vapourpal Ltd with shops across Munster, said this stance is easier to enforce now. 'Before the law came in we might get a bit of push-back because it wasn't the law,' she said. 'But now we just completely refuse, we don't have any problems.' She was reluctant to comment on where teenagers might get vapes, but pointed out they are sold in many sites other than dedicated shops. A former smoker who used vapes as an adult to quit, she is 'not the biggest fan' of Government plans to restrict flavours to tobacco only. 'A lot of people of all ages who use flavoured vapes don't want it to taste like tobacco, they want to get completely away from the smoking aspect of it,' she said. They have not been consulted on this legislation yet, but are open to that, she added. In medical circles, views are less positive towards vaping. Paul Kavanagh chairs the Royal College of Physicians' clinical advisory group on smoking and e-cigarettes. Can vapes help people quit smoking? Dr Kavanagh questioned the common argument that vaping is mainly a quit-smoking aid, arguing that if that were true, then higher vaping rates should mean lower tobacco use. In Ireland, tobacco use stopped declining in 2019 and since then there has been, he said 'unrestricted access' to vapes. 'So at a population level if there's an argument that having more and more people using e-cigarettes helps to reduce smoking prevalence, we have run that experiment here in Ireland,' he said. What that has led to is rapidly increasing e-cigarette use, particularly among children and young people, and at the same time we have not seen any further reduction in smoking prevalence in our population. Another common argument is that vaping is less harmful than smoking tobacco. 'We know that between one and two and two and three people who smoke will die of smoking-related disease. We know that on average people who smoke lose 10 years of life,' he said. 'Smoking is a leading cause of cancer. It causes heart disease, stroke, it causes lung disease. So how could you come up with a product that would be as harmful or more harmful than that? 'So we have to stop and call out this idea that something being not as harmful as smoking is somehow a suggestion the product is safe.' He emphasised that in Ireland this week 'almost 100 people are going to die from smoking-related diseases'. Dr Kavanagh urged e-cigarette manufacturers who believe their product can safely help adults to stop smoking to submit the device for regulatory assessment. The HSE does not recommend vaping in their Quit Smoking programme. Major conference in Dublin Links between vaping and the tobacco industry were a focus at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin this week. Yolonda Richardson, the president and CEO of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, was one of many Americans attending. 'We are interested in prevention,' she told the Irish Examiner. 'Nicotine is harmful to the developing brain, and so that's why we had no hesitation in moving quickly from the work where we were trying to prevent teens from smoking to preventing teens from vaping. 'We had no hesitation in moving quickly from the work where we were trying to prevent teens from smoking to preventing teens from vaping,' said Yolonda C Richardson of the US Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids at the World Conference on Tobacco Control in Dublin. File picture 'Because there is this misconception pretty much pushed by the tobacco industry and the vaping industry that vaping is better than smoking — and that's just not true for young kids, it really does negatively impact brain development.' She urged people to see vapes as part of a marketing strategy from the tobacco industry to gain new customers. A number of global tobacco companies advertise vaping products on their websites. The scale of the challenge is clear in data supplied by her campaign. Just 34 e-cigarette products and devices including tobacco and menthol flavours are approved in the US by the FDA but they said: 'It has denied marketing applications for millions of flavored e-cigarette products.' A scene from 'The Vapening', made by teenagers who are members of the Foróige CRIB project in Sligo, showing different types of vape. Ms Richardson also welcomed the growing understanding of the health risks. The national youth tobacco survey in American showed a decline in vape use among young Americans from a high of 20% in 2019 to just 5.9% last year. Here, 20% of women aged 15-24 use e-cigarettes either daily or occasionally; the rate for men of the same age group is 16%, the Healthy Ireland survey showed. At this week's conference, health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill re-committed to Ireland's plans to further reduce tobacco and e-cigarette use. Her focus, she said, 'is on helping as many young people as possible to avoid using tobacco and any other product which delivers any nicotine'. The conference also heard discussion of diseases other than cancer linked to smoking or vaping including heart disease and stroke. The Irish Heart Foundation's senior policy manager Mark Murphy echoed these fears. He pointed to a significant study published in the European Heart Journal. This found exposure to e-cigarette vapour causes damage to the heart and blood vessels as well as the brain and lungs. 'If you're a 60-year-old man trying to quit smoking and with vaping you can cut down your smoking, that's great — but we're concerned about the next generation,' he warned. 'You're up against an industry that has endless resources and it's up to health charities and health boards — who have limited budgets — to take it on.'
Daily Mirror
a day ago
- Sport
- Daily Mirror
Wembley ballgirl to Lionesses' young cub - Meet England's one to watch at Euros
At 19-years-old Michelle Agyemang is the youngest player in Sarina Wiegman's squad for the Women's Euros - but her coaches and teammates know exactly what this trusted wild card can do From Wembley ball girl to Lioness cub, Michelle Agyemang is England's youngest player and undoubtedly the one to watch this tournament. Born in Southend, Essex, football was an inevitable path for the 19-year-old, who grew up in a family obsessed with the sport. Although loyalties were deeply contested with her Ghanaian father supporting Manchester United, her brother is a Chelsea fan, while her sister follows West Ham. Meanwhile Michelle, a life-long gunner, joined Arsenal at just six-years-old when her dad landed her a trial while working as a grassroots football coach. But it was watching the Lionesses win 4-0 against Northern Ireland while standing on the sidelines at Wembley that Agyemang, then just a 15-year-old ball girl, truly realised her dream of becoming part of the England squad. Finally four years later, while playing for England U19s, an injury for club teammate Alessia Russo opened the field for Agyemang to step up to senior duty. At the Women's Nations League in April, she was given her England debut against Belgium. It took her just 41 seconds to stick one between the goalposts. Recalling that goal, she still looks back with disbelief and admits she rewatches it on Youtube to try and inspire herself. She said: "I was literally watching it today. Sometimes I think 'how did I do that'. "Like, probably if you asked me to go out and do it again now it just wouldn't happen, so it's just crazy to look back on it and believe that it happened, but I'm so grateful that it did." At England boot camp Michelle was warmly welcomed into the fold by experienced players who admire her talent. Captain Leah Williamson admitted: "Michelle's athleticism is something I can only dream of... She knows how much I believe in her." And after a stint on loan to Bright and Hove in the last WSL season, boss Dario Vidosic predicts Michelle will be a "household name" after the Euros. He said: "She's got a beautiful strike, she knows how to hit a ball, she's dangerous, she possesses a lot of weapons and she'll be, no doubt, a household name sooner rather than later. "I'm sure there'll be a lot of kids wearing her jerseys in the not too distant future." Now a trusted wildcard for Sarina Wiegman, Michelle says her overwhelming feeling to be going to Switzerland is one of immense pride. "To put that badge on and to know that you're representing your country at a major tournament," she said. "I'm so grateful for the opportunity." Speaking about the moment she got the call up, Michelle added: 'It was amazing to get that call and to be here again. My family is so supportive. When I was telling them my mum was screaming, my dad was shouting as well and then my friends. I'm really grateful that she [Wiegman] has put the trust in me to come in here again and show what I can do.'
ITV News
a day ago
- ITV News
Man found guilty of murdering wife as she pushed baby in pram in Bradford
A "violent, jealous, controlling" stalker who tracked his estranged wife down before stabbing her to death as she pushed their baby in a pram has been found guilty of murder. Habibur Masum, 26, launched a "ferocious" attack on Kulsuma Akter, 27, as she walked on Westgate in Bradford, before calmly leaving the scene. He had admitted manslaughter and possession of a knife but denied murder. The jury convicted him after five hours and 40 minutes of deliberations. Masum will be sentenced on 22 July. A trial at Bradford Crown Court heard that Masum tracked Ms Akter to a refuge in Bradford, where she had been staying after he held a knife to her throat following an assault at their home in Oldham in November 2023. After finding her through her phone location, Masum was seen on CCTV in the days leading up to the fatal attack 'loitering, watching and waiting' in streets around the hostel, jurors heard. He sent her a photo of the front of the building with a message saying: 'I know that you are living in this place. I knew from the first day you moved here." He sent her messages threatening to kill her family members if she did not return to him, before trying to lure her out by sending her fake messages from a local GP practice pretending their son had an appointment. The court heard Ms Akter eventually felt safe enough to leave the refuge on 6 April last year after Masum updated his Facebook page falsely claiming to be in Spain. As she was walking in the city centre with a friend, pushing her baby in a pram, Masum confronted her. He was seen on CCTV trying to steer Ms Akter and the pram away before pulling a knife from his jacket. CCTV footage of the attack, played during the trial, captured Ms Akter's screams as Masum stabbed her at least 25 times, put her on the ground and kicked her 'as a final insult'. Masum left their child at the scene and went on the run for three days before being arrested in Buckinghamshire. The prosecution said Masum, originally from Bangladesh, showed no signs of being 'distressed' after killing his wife. During the trial, Masum refused to watch footage of the attack but jurors heard that during his first police interview he requested to see it, saying he wanted to see what officers 'had on him'. In evidence, Masum said he did not remember killing his wife and had taken a knife with him intending to stab himself in front of her if she did not 'listen to him'. He broke down in tears as he claimed to have 'lost control' when Ms Akter told him there would be no shortage of people willing to replace him as a father to their son. But the prosecution said his tears 'were as fake as his claims of self harm' and that 'the only person Habibur Masum feels sorry for is himself'. As well as murder, Masum was convicted of stalking, assault and making threats to kill. Masum had a Youtube channel which showed him demonstrating how to construct a baby's cot. His videos also feature him experiencing "snow in the United Kingdom", documenting a journey from Manchester to Barcelona and shopping in Primark. Speaking after the verdict, senior investigating officer Det Ch Insp Stacey Atkinson, of the West Yorkshire Police Homicide and Major Enquiry Team, said Masum had "calmly walked away as if nothing had happened" after murdering his wife." She added: 'Kulsuma's family have been left absolutely devastated by her death, I hope today's conviction will bring them a sense of justice."
New York Post
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
‘Liver King' freed after threatening Joe Rogan — and immediately starts ranting online again
Troubled influencer Brian 'Liver King' Johnson has been freed after his arrest for allegedly making terroristic threats against Joe Rogan — and immediately began posting bizarre videos again. The 47-year-old steroid-popping influencer was arrested in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday night after he suddenly showed up in Rogan's hometown after ranting for days about 'picking a fight' with the podcaster — at one point seemingly brandishing guns. The testicle-munching muscleman has since posted a $20,000 bond, according to court records reviewed by KXAN. He has been banned from contacting Rogan or his family, and ordered to stay at least 600 feet from any of their homes and businesses. He was also ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation within a week of his release, the records showed. 3 Johnson posted a $20,000 bond after his arrest on Tuesday night. @liverking/Instagram Once out, Johnson quickly resumed posting bizarre videos on social media — which he has been doing for the last eight months after appearing to abandon his once-popular Youtube channel. 'I'm gonna make a bunch of videos this week, and then I'm not gonna make 'em for a long while — then I'll make some more again,' he said in one clip, without explanation. 3 Johnson immediately started posting more bizarre content after his release from prison. @liverking/Instagram 'Thank you for all the prayers — all the people praying for me,' he said in one of more than a dozen videos posted to Instagram since his release. In another, he said a prayer — with an F-bomb — while holding candles and dancing to classical music. The influencer — whose philosphy supposedly revolves around living like cavemen — then later complained about the poor facilities in his room at the Four Seasons. 3 Johnson was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation within the next week. @liverking/Instagram Johnson was charged with making terroristic threats after traveling to Rogan's home and challenging him to a fight in a bizarre Instagram video. 'Joe Rogan, I'm calling you out, my name's Liver King. Man to man, I'm picking a fight with you,' he said, while shirtless and sporting a wolf pelt. Rogan told police he didn't know Johnson and thought he appeared Rogan, 57, told police he was unaware that the influencer, who he'd never met, was 'targeting him' and had been told by other people that Johnson 'has a significant drug issue,' according to legal documents obtained by TMZ. Johnson has never been featured on Rogan's popular podcast 'The Joe Rogan Experience,' but the influencer has come up multiple times on the show in discussions about performance-enhancing drugs. The macho meat-lover infamously denied ever using steroids to achieve his freakish frame — instead crediting his diet of raw meat, animal testicles, liver and fertilized chicken eggs. However, he was exposed for being on steroids and human growth hormone in late 2022 after leaked emails revealed he had been spending $11,000 a month on muscle-building drugs.
The Citizen
2 days ago
- Sport
- The Citizen
Highlanders run riot over Flying Eagles
The Boschpick Highlanders delivered a rugby masterclass on Saturday, June 21, overwhelming the Flying Eagles 109–7 at Arbor Park Sports Grounds. The Highlanders led 50–0 at halftime and never took their foot off the gas in a dominant performance that saw them cross the try-line 17 times. Superior in skill, strength, and fitness, the Highlanders left their opponents struggling to keep pace from the opening whistle. Returning to action after a two-week break, several Highlanders players showed little rust, making the most of the one-sided encounter to build momentum and match sharpness. Despite the lopsided scoreline, a modest but appreciative crowd enjoyed flashes of individual brilliance and flowing team play. The match also showcased a promising crop of young Highlanders talent, suggesting a bright future for the club. Try Scorers for the Highlanders: Minne Siwela (10) – 4 tries, 9 conversions Sithole (8) – 1 try Xolani (3) – 2 tries Sizwe (14) – 2 tries Zuma (19) – 1 try Tino (13) – 1 try Thabang (11) – 1 try Banda (21) – 1 try Sfundo (22) – 1 try The team's focus now shifts to their next fixture—a much-anticipated clash against Utrecht in Utrecht on Saturday, June 28. The news provided to you in this link has been investigated and compiled by the editorial staff of the Newcastle Advertiser, a sold newspaper distributed in the Newcastle area. Please follow us on Youtube and feel free to like, comment, and subscribe. For more local news, visit our webpage, follow us on Facebook and Twitter, and request an add on our WhatsApp (082 874 5550). At Caxton, we employ humans to generate daily fresh news, not AI intervention. Happy reading!
