![]() |
![]() |
![]() |
||
| |
||||
|
| |
Kicking cigarettes at 30 could add 10 years to women’s life For more on this research please click on http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(12)61720-6/fulltext
HSE today launches the new phase of its excellent Quit campaign If you would like to join the 300,000 people currently trying to quit smoking please access the following link: http://www.hse.ie/eng/services/News/QUITphase3.html
ASH Presentation to the Seanad Public Consultation Committee 19th June 2012
www.thetribe.ie Launched – A new website for young people
ASH Ireland today launched a new website, The Tribe, www.thetribe.ie specifically designed to engage with young people on smoking and tobacco related issues. (Launch-12pm Tuesday 22nd May 2012 at 41a Blackberry Lane, Rathmines - the offices of Cawley Nea) This interactive website, will deal with health, environmental and addiction issues, as well stressing the many other downsides to smoking, such as drying of the skin (wrinkles) loss of hair quality, damage to teeth, loss of fitness and nicotine poisoning of young people who work in the tobacco fields in developing countries. Dr Angie Brown, of ASH Ireland and Medical Director of the Irish Heart Foundation said today, “We are very aware that young people do not engage effectively with websites, which are designed for adults. The new website, which we had evaluated by young people’s focus groups, is specifically designed to meet the needs of young people. We have provided information, together with a range of videos and pictures, which highlight the many issues and dangers associated with tobacco and smoking. The Tribe idea, is essentially a ‘tribe against big tobacco’ and all this big industry stands for; including massive profit, aggressive marketing of a killer product and a major influencer of governments all around the world”. At today’s launch transition year students from Drimnagh Castle secondary school, who had reviewed the website presented their assessment on the possible impact of www.thetribe.ie. Jason Nolan, transition year student at Drimnagh Castle said, “ www.thetribe.ie is accessible and very helpful for people of my age group and school goers; as there is a lot of smoking in the vicinity of schools. I was also taken aback with some of the statistics; I learned, for example, that most people who die from lung cancer are smokers”. Cameron Hazel, another transition year student from Drimnagh Castle said, “I was particularly taken by the information on ‘big tobacco’, the enemy as they are referred to on www.thetribe.ie . I also learned a lot about how ‘big tobacco’ continually try to influence governments, who are health focused and want to change the laws and make smoking less attractive and less normal”. The website, www.thetribe.ie was designed by Cawley Nea/TWEA, Dublin.
Students from Drimnagh Castle School with Dr Angie Brown
Canada: Memo shows tobacco company knew smoking was deadly in the ‘80s,
10th May 2012An internal memo showing that Imperial Tobacco has known cigarettes to be addictive since the 1980s has been entered into evidence in Quebec’s $27 billion class-action lawsuit against Big Tobacco. In the memo, Bob Bexon, Imperial Tobacco’s former director of Marketing Research and Development, admits that the only thing keeping tobacco companies in business is the addictiveness of cigarettes. Imperial Tobacco lawyer Suzanne Côté had argued against the document being introduced as evidence on the grounds that it was not pertinent and based on hearsay. This document strikes a major blow to Canada’s three tobacco industry giants — including Imperial Tobacco Ltd — who are on trial in Quebec Superior Court in the largest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history. All three tobacco companies on trial had publicly denied that smoking was addictive and dangerous until June 9, 2000.
Press Statement from ASH Ireland , Monday 30th January 2012 Scottish Research strongly supportive of ASH Ireland campaign to have smoking banned in cars transporting children under 16 years A paper published in the British Medical Journal earlier this month entitled “Secondhand Smoke in Cars: assessing children’s potential exposure during typical journey conditions” again highlights the serious health risks to children who are transported in cars in which adults smoke.
The research on which the published article is based, found that concentrations of fine particle matter (PM2.5) in cars where smoking took place were high - and in all cases exceeded the W.H.O. guidelines. PM2.5 is a toxic substance. The report also found that the concentrations of toxic substances were strongly associated with the number of cigarettes smoked.
The report went on to say that exposure to PM2.5 “at the levels reported is likely to be harmful to respiratory health and measures to remove or reduce this exposure within the confines of vehicles should be considered both in terms of individual responsibility and via legislation”.
Dr Brian Maurer, Chairperson of ASH Ireland said today, “this report, which was conducted by staff at the University of Aberdeen in conjunction with the Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital again highlights the serious risk to children in cars with smoking adults. This research confirms previous findings in Ireland, in the United States and in Britain. We again ask Minister Reilly to immediately introduce legislation which will protect children from exposure to the harmful effects of secondhand smoke in cars. I raised this matter with the Minister on his appointment last April and he indicated that he would look positively at this proposal, which has the support of 79% of Irish people, and those involved in healthcare in this country.” ASH Ireland also wishes to draw your attention to additional evidence in support of the introduction of such a ban.
Ends
For contact: ASH Ireland, 01-6599451 Young Communications, 087-2471520 Sad reality of the ‘1 in every 2 statistic’ illustrated in new HSE QUIT TV advert 7th November 2011 Also Quit Smoking Consultant Clinic
Comments made by Dr Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization in an Address to the Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, Sixty-second session in Manilla, Philippines on 10th October 2011 "Big Tobacco’s efforts to subvert the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control have reached new heights. Tactics that were previously covert are now out in the open and extremely aggressive.
Numerous other countries are being subjected to the same kind of aggressive scare tactics. It is hard for any country to bear the financial burden of this kind of litigation, but most especially so for small countries.
Further Information on Westlife’s link with Tobacco Westlife recently indicated they were not aware of the tobacco sponsorship of a concert they were to play in Jakarta, Indonesia. However, we now place on this website some other material which has been used by the tobacco industry in joint sponsorship with Westlife at other concerts. One shows Westlife in a joint poster with the Peter Stuyvesant brand of tobacco.
Last weekend The HSE launched a major media campaign designed to encourage smokers to quit. The campaign is based on the well established fact that 1 in every 2 smokers will die from a tobacco related disease. People who wish to quit are asked to visit http://www.quit.ie or call the National Smokers Quitline on 1850 201 203. The campaign is being supported by a range of health groups including ASH Ireland. At the launch of the HSE Quit campaign were friends and neighbours Michelle Delves and Marian Kilty from Springfield, Tallaght, Dublin 24.
The Revenue Commissioners have recently established a dedicated Freephone Line where members of the public can report details or concerns re smuggled cigarettes. The availability of smuggled cigarettes not only affects the economy of this country and represent a significant health risk, they also help to support organised crime. The confidential freephone is at 1800 295 295. For current tobacco control news click on http://www.ash.ie/News/National_News/Navigation.html YOUTH NEWS - Congratulations to Jerry Moran, Aoife Musgrave and Donie O'Sullivan who were awarded the ASH Ireland prize at the BT Young Scientists on 11th January 2008 at the RDS, Dublin for their project "An investigation into a possible link between smoking and the inability to taste PTC". They are from Colaiste na Sceilge, Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry.
|
|
| © 2005 ASH Ireland. All rights reserved. |
|
|
|