ASH Australia: 
Publications 

 
 


ASH has produced or collaborated on the following media and publications:

SMOKEFREE OUTDOOR AREAS resource kit for councils!

 

 

« Click on the playground to see our Smokefree Outdoor Areas resource kit for local councils. 

Developed for World No Tobacco Day 2007 by ASH Australia, The Cancer Council NSW, the AMA (NSW), the National Heart Foundation of Australia (NSW) and the Local Government and Shires Association NSW. 
What every council needs to know about getting playgrounds, outdoor dining areas, parks, beaches and other council-controlled areas smokefree.

 

 


Video and slideshow resources

Protecting children - video and factsheets
ASH 6min video (2006) and factsheets (2007) on retail display of tobacco - how it encourages children to smoke, and why health groups want it out of sight. 

ASH slideshows
ASH and other slideshow presentations on general and specific tobacco issues.


Fact sheets... for:

- Investors (September 2007) - don't put good money into a bad business
- MPs and politicians  
     (Latest: winter 2007 - on smokefree pubs, retail display and more)
 
- Physicians (May 2005) - how to deal with smoking patients
- National Press Club (March 2005) - on tobacco industry deception
- Retailers (Dec 2004) - responsible sale of tobacco
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Local Government (Nov 2004) - getting beaches, playgrounds smokefree
- Unions
- Businesses
- Pubs and clubs

and on...
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Litigation and passive smoking
- Costs of smoking in Australia prior to 1998

ASH media

- Media releases and alerts  

(and see also SmokeFree Australia news page)


ASH publications and articles

- WARNING: outdated pack health warnings are addictive - to tobacco companies (ASH article in Tobacco Control, Sept 2007)  
- Smokefree outdoor areas (ASH, health and local government groups' resource kit NSW, May 2006)
- Pfizer Health Report (ASH/Pfizer booklet, 2005 on Smoking and Health)
- What dentists should know about smoking (ASH presentation in Australian Dental Perspectives, 2005)
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Promoting tobacco to the young in the age of advertising bans (ASH / Cancer Council NSW article in NSW Public Health Bulletin, 2004)
- Passive smoking and the law (2001)
- Smoking and tobacco-related disease in NSW (1999)
- Tobacco in Australia: facts and issues (1995)


ASH submissions

- Tobacco control: a blue chip investment in public health (ASH / health groups submission to Australian Treasury, 2001)
- To South Australian review, point of sale display, 2006
- To Tasmanian review of measures to protect children, 2006 
- To NSW Parliamentary Select Committee on Tobacco, 2006
- (SmokeFree Australia coalition) to NSW Parliamentary Select  Committee, 2006
- To ACT Smoke-free Areas Review, 2003
- To South Australian Hospitality Smoke-free Taskforce, 2003
- To Australian Building Codes Board: 
   Development of disability standard on access to premises 2001
   Note: this pdf contains outdated links to a Cancer Council report "When 
  
  smoke gets in your eyes..."  Please not that the new URL of this booklet is 
    www.cancercouncil.com.au/editorial.asp?pageid=713

 

Try our NEW ASH crossword 2 (2005)    
Here's a fun and informative way of getting familiar with tobacco issues, with our website, and with some other relevant sites. A useful educational tool! 
Or try our earlier ASH crossword 1

 
 

 Page last updated on 28/9/07