SmokeFree
Australia
Coalition for safe
workplaces
is an alliance of employee and health groups
aiming to reduce harm from secondhand smoke
by making all Australian workplaces safely smokefree as soon as possible - “No
excuses, no exemptions.”
Secondhand smoke kills. It's toxic and
carcinogenic - and there's no safe exposure level.
But work safety authorities are turning a blind eye to it.
Despite welcome changes,
thousands of Australian workers are still required to work day after day,
night after night, exposed to some of the most toxic, carcinogenic substances
known.
If it was anything other than tobacco, there'd be ministerial resignations
and page one headlines.
Imagine the outcry if we'd
"managed" asbestos like this !!
LATEST
NEWS
Media releases, campaigns, latest developments from
Australia and around the world.
SUMMARY
The main arguments and evidence for 100% smokefree workplaces - indoors
and out.
WHAT
STILL NEEDS FIXING
How wealthy gambling interests have escaped safe workplace responsibilities.
TAKING
ACTION
Exposed to secondhand smoke in your workplace? Call us NOW on (02) 9334-1823.
THE
HEALTH EVIDENCE
Strong independent
research shows passive smoke harm - especially
in workplaces.
THE
ECONOMIC EVIDENCE
Research worldwide shows
smokefree biz is good biz – despite the scare tactics of the
tobacco-friendlies.
PUBLIC
SUPPORT
Latest
research showing snowballing public support for 100% smokefree workplaces.
SMOKEFREE
LAWS: AUSTRALIAN STATES AND THE WORLD
How states & territories compare; worldwide best practices;
duties under OHS, discrimination & treaties.
EFFECTIVENESS
OF SMOKEFREE ACTION
Worldwide experience shows it's worth
going all the way.
See the immediate, impressive benefits.
VENUES
DOING IT SMOKEFREE
... and loving it! Pubs and clubs taking the lead and winning approval
from members, staff and patrons.
TOBACCO
AND ITS ALLIES MISLEAD PUBLIC, MPs
Trawl through the tobacco and gaming lobby's decades of undue and misleading
influence
SMOKERS’
RIGHTS
What
about smokers? How the tobacco companies have ignored their basic rights.
RESOURCES
AND LINKS
Factsheets, slideshow, TV and poster ads, publications & reports, partners' websites.