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Slideshow: Smokefree workplaces: no delays, no exemptions (2006) Why we need quick and total indoor smoke bans in all workplaces - including pubs and clubs. Latest health, economic and public opinion research from Australia and overseas. Great for presenting to governments and opinion leaders. 20 slides.
Radio discussion: Good discussion on ABC Radio National on Sept 19, 2006 - featuring SmokeFree Australia partner Terry Noone (Musicians Union), as well as health experts, the AHA, and talkback callers - patrons, barworkers and others, ranging from the sharp to the plain loopy! Around 40mins - listen to it at Australia Talks Back September 19: "Smoking Bans: the Pleasure and the Pain."
Latest factsheet:
Tobacco
Facts for MPs (NSW) (Autumn
2006)
Deaths, cancers devastate bar workers while fake
"outdoor" loopholes persist. NSW-oriented, but includes much info relevant elsewhere.
One page, 2-sided, colour. An invaluable resource.
To get hard copies, call (02) 9334-1823.
See also our summary
of the main arguments, with links to the research
National smokefree hospitality campaign
Bar workers are taking to
Australia's TV screens in a new campaign for smokefree pubs and clubs,
coordinated by The Cancer Council.
"It's about health", they say "- and it's about time."
See the bar
worker ads and more info
NSW campaign: Go
SmokeFree
This is urgent! Sign up quickly,
send cards to MPs, and help make sure the right decisions are made to get NSW
pubs and clubs in line with other workplaces!
Vic: Smokefree
Victoria
Not affiliated with SmokeFree Australia but an informative site with more
good links.
What
am I inhaling?
Useful page from Physicians for a Smokefree Canada - allows you to enter
details of your own exposure to secondhand smoke at work and find out what
you're inhaling and what its health impacts are.
ASH
UK factsheet on secondhand smoke
Useful March 2005 factsheet - go to ASH
UK site then click at top "factsheets", scroll down to Detailed
Facts No. 8 "Secondhand Smoke" - pdf.
Clearing the air in 2004
Article from CCH business website, Dec. 2004:
As Australia progressively introduces smoking bans across most of the country
over the next three years, there is a global move to make workplaces, cities and
even entire countries smoke-free.
UK
push for smokefree workplaces
See
online special from "Risk"
magazine (British Trade Union Congress)
See excellent UK report
A
Killer on the Loose
Passive smoke doesn't just
"bother" people...
See dying
Canadian
bar worker's TV ad
Working
in a bar shouldn't be a death sentence
See Canadian
bar worker ads
How to create a smokefree workplace
Australia:
Going
smokefree: workplace recommendations
From the Cancer Council NSW - how to implement a smokefree workplace
policy.
NCOSS
smokefree workplace guide (2005)
Good brief outline of why and how to make workplaces smokefree
US:
Making
your workplace smokefree: a decision-maker's guide
From the US National Center for Chronic
Disease Prevention and health Promotion. Lots of very good background and tips,
some of it a bit US-specific.
The
Network Newsletter
from the Organized Labor & Tobacco Control Network. Useful
union-oriented resource, includes US case histories detailing the introduction
of smoke-free workplaces. US-only focus but still has useful pointers.
For
details of other union smoking initiatives in the
See also their email
and phone contacts
AARI
Asthma and Allergy Research
Institute
ACOSH Australian Council on Smoking and Health
ACTU Australian Council of Trade Unions
AMA Australian Medical Association
ASH Action on Smoking and Health Australia
MEAA Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance
MUA Musician's Union of Australia
NHF National Heart Foundation of Australia
LHMU Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers' Union
NSMA Non-Smokers' Movement of Australia
TCCA The Cancer Council Australia