ASH Australia: 
Publications 

 
 


ASH has produced or collaborated on these publications and media resources. Latest major campaigns are at the top.

SMOKEFREE OUTDOOR AREAS

 

See our  2009 briefing for local councils and businesses on  
Why al fresco dining areas should be 100% smokefree


See our  resource kit for local councils  (revised 2009) by ASH Australia, Cancer Council NSW, AMA (NSW), Heart Foundation (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.


TOBACCO-FREE CAMPUS GUIDE
Launched in 2009, everything you need to know about why we should make university and college campuses smokefree, end on-campus sales and promotion, break tobacco links and improve quit services. Great examples from Australia and overseas, and a step-by-step guide to policymaking.   See  the guide

 


PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM TOBACCO
See our  factsheets and video  on what can be done to protect children from secondhand smoke and tobacco promotion. These resources developed by ASH with a large coalition of health, child welfare, parent, teacher, church and other organisations.   

OTHER RESOURCES

Video and slideshows

ASH and other groups' slideshow presentations on general and specific tobacco issues.


Resource kits and factsheets... for:

- Councils and businesses (NSW) (2009) - on why outdoor dining areas should be 100% smokefree
- Local councils (2007-9) - on getting al fresco dining areas, playgrounds and other crowded outdoor areas smokefree
- Protecting Children from Tobacco (2007-09) - from smoke and promotion
- Investors (2007) - don't put good money into a bad business
- MPs / politicians  
     (Latest: 2010 - on tobacco tax, plain packaging and social marketing)
 
- Physicians (2005) - how to deal with smoking patients
- National Press Club (2005) - on tobacco industry deception
- Retailers (2004) - responsible sale of tobacco
- Unions (2002)
- Businesses
- Pubs and clubs

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

ASH tobacco factsheets and backgrounders... for:

  
         - Politicians 
           - Media 

ASH media

- Media releases and alerts  

(and see also SmokeFree Australia news page)


ASH publications and articles (latest at top)

- In-flight tobacco push ends after outcry (ASH news feature on QANTAS tobacco promotion controversy, Tobacco Control, Feb 2009 - spool down)
-
World champion branded "pusher" (ASH article on Casey Stoner's tobacco sponsorship in Tobacco Control, Nov 2008 - spool down)  
- The deadly workplace hazard that doesn't rate a mention (SmokeFree Australia on secondhand smoke in pubs and clubs, crikey.com, 2008)
- WARNING: outdated pack health warnings are addictive - to tobacco companies (ASH article in Tobacco Control, Sept 2007)  
- 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)


ASH (and our coalitions') submissions and briefing papers

- Submission to NZ Maori inquiry into the tobacco industry
(ASH to Maori Affairs inquiry, 2010)
- Political donations and electoral funding in NSW
(ASH to NSW parliamentary Joint Standing Committee, 2009)
- The case for 100% smokefree gambling areas 
(ASH and SmokeFree Australia workplace coalition submission to Productivity Commission inquiry into Gambling, 2009)
- Why al fresco dining areas should be 100% smokefree 
(ASH, Protecting Children from Tobacco and SmokeFree Australia coalitions' briefing paper for NSW councils and businesses, 2009)
- Why gambling areas should be 100% smokefree
(ASH and SmokeFree Australia coalition briefing for Australian governments, 2009)
- ASH to Queensland Chronic Diseases Inquiry, 2009
- ASH to Federal Green Paper on Political Donations, 2009
- ASH to ACT review on smoking in cars, 2009
- Protecting Children from Tobacco coalition to ACT review on smoking in cars, 2009
- ASH to Western Australian review of tobacco laws, 2009  
- Protecting Children from Tobacco and SmokeFree Australia coalition to Western Australian review of tobacco laws, 2009 
- Development of a National Preventive Health Strategy on Tobacco  
(ASH to Preventative Health Taskforce, 2008)
- SmokeFreeAustralia submission to National Occupational Health and Safety Review, 2008  (see submission 026)
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ASH to Victorian review of tobacco laws, 2008
- Protecting Children from Tobacco coalition to Victorian review of tobacco laws, 2008 
- ASH/Protecting Children from Tobacco to NSW review, 2008
- Ending unhealthy political donations 
(ASH submission to NSW parliamentary inquiry, 2008)
- 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
- Tobacco control: a blue chip investment (ASH / health groups to 
       Australian Treasury, 2001)
- 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

 

ASH crossword 2    
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 16/2/10