Party Prince Harry Spotted Smoking Hookah Pipe Onboard Yacht in Abu Dhabi

Source from:  Mail Online 11/28/2014

Prince Harry has been spotted smoking from a shisha pipe onboard a yacht in Abu Dhabi.

The photograph shows the 30-year-old royal trying the flavoured tobacco on the boat, which was docked in the United Arab Emirates city's marina for the Mahiki F1 Yacht Party.

Harry was pictured dressed casually with seven others as he smoked the hookah - which is legal - after watching Lewis Hamilton win his second Formula One World Championship.

World Health Organisation research into hookah pipes shows that the average session lasts around an hour - and in that time the smoker can inhale the same amount of smoke as from 100 cigarettes.

The image - released by London agency Clickstarpics and first published by Los Angeles website TMZ - comes after Harry became the first to congratulate Hamilton on his win over the in-car radio.
He told him: 'Lewis, thank you very much for not making the British public sweat. You are a legend.' Enditem

Blakely said it was too early to endorse any of those options, but a business-as-usual approach would not work. "We are going to need one of these extra radical things that hasn't been tried anywhere else," he said.

"Even a packet of cigarettes costing $40 will not be enough."

Some public health experts, including Blakely, have expressed concern that the Government is quietly backing away from the 2025 goal, with plain packaging plans stalled over legal fears, tax hikes ending in 2016, and no new measures on the horizon.

"Parliament has signed up to this goal, but whether there's the visceral belief in it still, I don't know. We don't have the champions we once had."

The paper, using 2013 census data, shows smoking is declining, but not quickly enough - and it will take until at least 2040 for non-Maori, and 2060 for Maori, to be "smokefree".

By 2025, it is forecast that about 7 per cent of non-Maori and 19 per cent of Maori will still be smoking. The country will be considered "smokefree" when less than 5 per cent of the population smokes.

Michael Colhoun, from the anti-smoking group ASH, said it was still too early to know whether New Zealand would reach the smokefree goal, but he did support more aggressive moves to reduce smoking, particularly forcing tobacco companies to reduce nicotine and other harmful cigarette ingredients.

Associate Health Minister Peseta Sam Lotu-Iiga, who has taken over responsibility for tobacco control since the September election, was not available for an interview yesterday.

In a written statement, he said the Government remained committed to Smokefree 2025, which would include looking at "new innovative policies".

"It is clear from the data and current trends that more is required to be done to achieve the aspirational 2025 goal."

Further tax hikes, considered the best way to encourage smokers to quit, had not been ruled out. Enditem