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Details |
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Feb 27, March 2 & 4
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Clean
Up Australia Day(s)
Biz 27/2,
Schools 2/3, General 4/3
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Cigarette butts are the most common
form of litter in Australia with over 23 billion butts dumped
on footpaths and in waterways every year resulting in major
cleanup costs paid for mainly by council and water ratepayers.
More about the days at
www.cleanup.com.au/.
Encourage local councils to make parks, playgrounds, beaches
and outdoor dining areas smokefree - for more info see www.ashaust.org.au/lv3/Lv3informationLG.htm
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March 4
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Sydney
Gay & Lesbian Mardi
Gras
(parade)
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The grand parade and party ending the
month of festivities. A chance to
highlight smoking issues in the G&L community. More on the
event at www.mardigras.org.au/.
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March
5 - 9
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Orthoptic
Awareness Week
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Publicise latest
evidence on how smoking can cause irreparable blindness - and what needs to be
done about it. For latest study see www.nature.com/eye/journal/v19/n9/abs/6701978a.html;
for background see www.ashaust.org.au/mediareleases/mr_20020312.htm.
For more about the week, go to www.orthoptics.org.au/OAW.htm.
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March 8
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International
Womens Day
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Use this event to
show how smoking is undermining womens’ health, fertility and
family life. More on the day at www.internationalwomensday.com;
on women and tobacco at www.inwat.org/.
See
also pregnant women and secondhand smoke at www.pregnets.org/mothers/secondhand.cfm. And more
about women and smoking at www.ashaust.org.au/mediareleases/mr_20040305.htm.
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March 11 - 18
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NSW Seniors
Week
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Emphasise health
risks for smoking seniors and how quitting is important not just
to live longer but for better quality of later life. Research on
how smoking speeds ageing at www.ashaust.org.au/mediareleases/mr_20050615.htm. More
on the NSW week at www.dadhc.nsw.gov.au/dadhc/Events/Event0320.htm
; other states have Seniors
Week at other times - search "seniors Week" + your
state.
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March
13 - 19
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Brain
Awareness Week
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Highlight smoking risk to the brain -
e.g. potentially deadly cerebral aneurysms.
See www.ashaust.org.au/mediareleases/mr_20020124.htm.
For more on the week, brain research and news: www.brainaware.org.au
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March
15 - 18 (actual race Sun 18th)
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Melbourne
Grand Prix
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The first
supposedly tobacco promotion-free
Melbourne F1 Grand Prix. Watch
closely to make sure they don't fudge the deadline! See good 2004 article at www.ashaust.org.au/calendar/0203SimonSMHwd.htm
and official F1 site at http://cars.grandprix.com.au/
Plenty of tobacco brand promotion still evident on this site: e.g.
see http://cars.grandprix.com.au/default.aspx?s=photogallerydisplay&galleryid=4&photoid=7
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March 17
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St.
Patrick's Day
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Ireland's pubs have been indoor-smokefree
for almost three years - and loving it. Qld and Tas have done the
right thing - other states not as well. Encourage all Irish pubs
in Australia to be truly Irish and smokefree.
"Na Caitear Tobac !" See latest news from Ireland at www.ashaust.org.au/SF'03/news.htm
- under INTERNATIONAL.
Contact SmokeFree Australia on (02) 9334-1823.
See our reworking of "When Irish Eyes are Smilin'" at www.ashaust.org.au/SF’03/files/IrishEyes.doc
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March 28
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National
Youth Tobacco Free Day
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"02 - controlled by you".
How much do you really know about tobacco dependence? Take the
quiz and see ideas for the day at www.oxygen.org.au/frame.cfm?sectionID=12&docID=80
140,000 Australian schoolkids smoking regularly is 140,000 too
many - see www.ashaust.org.au/lv3/action_POS.htm
and help us end tobacco targeting of kids.
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