ASH action calendar: June 2007

  
 
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Liberal Party National Conference
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Liberal Party National Conference
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Liberal Party National Conference
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Bowel Cancer Awareness Week
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World Environment Day
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International Men's Health Week (11-17)
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Men's Health Week
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Men's Health Week
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Men's Health Week
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Men's Health Week
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Men's Health Week
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Men's Health Week
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Drug Action Week
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Drug Action Week
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Drug Action Week

 

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Drug Action Week

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 Drug Action Week
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Deaf Blind Awareness Week
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Deaf Blind Week
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Deaf Blind Week 		 26 

 Internat. Day Against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking

Deaf Blind Week

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Deaf Blind Week
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Deaf Blind Week
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 Red Nose Day (SIDS)

Deaf Blind Week

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Deaf Blind Awareness Week
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Date Event Details
June 1 - 3 Liberal Party National Conference Westin Hotel, Martin Place, Sydney. A chance to press for Australia to lift its game on tobacco control - improve low funding, tighten laws. See our Politicians' Guide at www.ashaust.org.au/lv4/PolliesGuide.htm. The Liberals still accept political donations from tobacco companies, as well as from allied retailers, gaming/hoteliers etc.  More on the conference at  www.liberal.org.au.
June 5 World Environment Day   Campaign for smokefree outdoor dining, playgrounds, parks and beaches to reduce butt litter. Background and what some councils are doing at www.ashaust.org.au/lv3/Lv3informationLG.htm. More on the day worldwide at www.unep.org/wed/2007/english/About_WED_2007/. 
June 4 - 8 Bowel Cancer Awareness Week Smoking causes genetic damage leading to colorectal cancer - causing12% of fatal cases. See studies at http://coloncancer.about.com/od/smoking/. More on the week at www.bowelcanceraustralia.com/bc_awareness_1024/index_bowel_cancer_awareness_week.htm 
June 11 - 17 International Men's Health Week Highlight tobacco's particular impact on men - e.g. latest on prostate cancer and obesity gene transmission at http://www.ashaust.org.au/lv3/Lv3resources_health_reports.htm ; secondhand smoke harm to male sexuality at www.ashaust.org.au/SF'03/releases/050415.htm. More about the week: www.menshealthweekaustralia.org. 
June 18 - 22 Drug Action Week   Tobacco is our deadliest drug - killing four times as many as all other drugs combined, including alcohol! It's also the most addictive and costs society the most. Yet its prevention and control gets much less government support than either alcohol or illicits. What!  See www.ashaust.org.au/mediareleases/mr_20020622.htm. More on the week at www.drugactionweek.org.au  And see June 26  below...
June 26 International Day Against Drug Abuse & Illicit Trafficking Some tobacco interests will stop at nothing to get smoking as widespread as possible. See history of tobacco companies' links with international smuggling at factsheets.globalink.org/en/smuggling.shtml. More on the day at www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/noticeboards?nbpath=4882,601835 
June 23 - 30  Deaf Blind Awareness Week Highlight smoking and secondhand smoke impact on vision and hearing.
More on deafness link at www.ashaust.org.au/mediareleases/mr_20040826.htm; latest study on blindness at www.nature.com/eye/journal/v19/n9/abs/6701978a.html. More on the week at http://deafness.about.com/cs/events/a/deafblindweek.htm.
June 29 Red Nose Day (SIDS)   Parental smoking can quadruple the risk of SIDS - it harms babies both before and after birth. But more than 15% of women continue to smoke during pregnancy. Use this event to warn parents about the risks of smoking around babies. More at www.ashaust.org.au/mediareleases/mr_20020905.htm; and about the day at www.rednoseday.com.au/.  


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