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“
Proposals
to protect children from tobacco smoke and promotion, announced today
(Feb 28) by the NSW government, are strongly supported by health,
child welfare, church and community organisations – and by the
community. NSW
Cancer Minister Verity Firth has released a discussion paper proposing
several measures, including the phase-in of a total ban on retail
display of tobacco products, licensing of tobacco sellers, and making
cars carrying children smokefree by law. “These
proposals are enthusiastically welcomed by people working with health
and child welfare, and by the community as a whole,” says Anne
Jones, Chief Executive of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Australia. “Adoption
of these measures would do much to get tobacco out of children’s
faces – both in protecting them from the harmful effects of
secondhand smoke in cars, and in removing a powerful medium for
promoting tobacco to children in shops.” The
measures proposed are strongly supported by the 38-member Protecting
Children from Tobacco coalition* of major health, child welfare,
church, community organisations. Says
Anne Jones: “All these organisations are agreed that taking these
steps – some of them already taken by other states and other
countries – would help to reduce harm to children and their uptake
of smoking. “We
should never forget that smoking hurts children as well as adults, and
is normally the result of childhood recruitment and addiction. “There
is very strong majority support in the community for taking strong
action to protect children from tobacco. “We
commend the NSW government for proposing these measures, which will do
a great deal to lower smoking rates, reduce deaths and disease, and
save health costs.” *
Protecting Children from Tobacco coalition – see list of 38
supporting organisations at www.ashaust.org.au/lv4/ProtectChildrenEndorsements.htm
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