World No Tobacco Day 1998

• 06/03/98 ISRAEL: No Smoking Today, Ministry Urges The Country Jerusalem Post
  
  Smoking is decreasing among Israeli adults, but it is growing among teenagers, the Health Ministry said yesterday, on the eve of World No-Tobacco Day. The day of abstinence will be marked today in Israel because the worldwide observance fell on Shavuot, May 31. Youngsters who smoke are beginning to light up at the ages of 11 or 12, compared to 14 or 15 a decade ago, the ministry said.
  
  
• 06/02/98 World No-Tobacco Day 1998 Awards WHO recognizes outstanding accomplishments around the world. In the US, PETER VALLONE, MICHAEL ERIKSEN
  
  
• 06/02/98 CALIFORNIA: Sharpen Focus on Tobacco Industry Tactics Business Wire
  
  There is a place where new dolls smile amidst cartons of Salem Lights, toy cars shine invitingly alongside Marlboro signs, and the Easter bunny sits happily atop a case of pipe tobacco. This exhibit is not in the local art museum, rather in the very place most consumers rely on to provide their healthcare needs -- chain drugstores. As part of a photojournalism project sponsored by the PHARMACY PARTNERSHIP, young people throughout California captured these images of tobacco promotions in their communities' chain drugstores.
  
  
• 06/01/98 CALIFORNIA: Getting Kids Into a Huff Over Smoking
  
  Health: Exhibits at World No-Tobacco Day stress the dangers of lighting up. Joe Camel takes some lumps, too.
  
  
• 06/01/98 International Meet On Tobacco Control Mooted Hindu Online
  
  The WHO is working on an international framework convention on tobacco control, with a view to effectively tackle the health problems posed by the use of tobacco in various forms. The proposed Convention would be a legal instrument in the form of an international treaty to which the signatory States would agree to pursue broadly stated goals.
  
  
• 06/01/98 MISSOURI: Tobacco Billboard Fight KSHB Ch. 41 Kansas City/MSNBC
  
  Sunday was World No Tobacco Day, when people around the globe were urged to go 24-hours without smoking. In Kansas City, the focus turned to stopping potential smokers before they ever start. . . Missouri State Representative PAT KELLEY says, "They're everywhere, billboards encouraging smoking, depicting young smokers as being cool." Many local leaders say that's why it's time to turn up the heat on cigarette advertising. They propose a ban on all outdoor tobacco advertising within a two-mile radius of Kansas City's schools and play areas.
  
  
• 06/01/98 LEBANON: FRANJIEH Targets Young In Anti-smoking Drive Beirut Daily Star
  
  Health minister SULEIMAN FRANJIEH announced on Saturday the launching of a smoking prevention and awareness programme. The programme, prepared jointly with the World Health Organisation (Who), aims at achieving practical steps to cut out smoking, particularly among the young generation.
  
  
• 06/01/98 SRI LANKA: Lanka Burns Rs. 50 Million A Day Sri Lanka Daily News
  
  Sri Lankans spend over Rs. 50 million a day on smoking and most of them are from poor families whose monthly income is less than Rs. 2,000. . . Minister S. B. Dissanayake told journalists that many poverty alleviation schemes launched in the past failed as designers of those programs did not realise the central cause of the problem. . . The PA government has identified the cause of poverty first. "We have realised that evil habits of members of poor families like heavy smoking, consumption of liquor and addiction to drugs are major causes of abject poverty. Remedial measures are being taken to eradicate such evils before helping these families to free themselves from poverty", he said.
  
  
• 05/31/98 NIGERIA's Anti-smoking Drive PANA
  
  Nigeria's military government has banned cigarette smoking in hospitals across the country, as part of a national campaign to stem the dangerous social habit with grave health implications. Health Minister Rear Adm. Jubrilla Ayinla said smoking is also banned in all health ministries in Nigeria.
  
  
• 06/01/98 AUSTRALIA: Lawyers To Back Smoking Crusade The Age
  
  Lawyers will give their services free in passive smoking prosecutions to force a ban on smoking in public places, the Australian Medical Association said yesterday. The Victorian AMA president, Dr Gerald Segal, said yesterday that the Law Institute of Victoria had lined up several lawyers to help spearhead the campaign.
  
  
• 06/01/98 MARYLAND: Help In Stopping Smoking Ch. 25, Hagerstown, MD/MSNBC
  
  The Washington County Health Department observed World No Tobacco Day Sunday. . . On Sunday, the Stop Smoking For Life program, sponsored through the Washington County Health Department, held a reception for those people who have completed the program with success. The motto was The Power to be Tobacco Free. Generations Working Together.
  
  
• 06/01/98 KENTUCKY: 5k Walk Marks Year Free Of Smoke Cincinnati Enquirer
  
  About 200 people participated in a 5K walk Sunday at Presidents Park, which completed a year of smoke-free activities by the Northern Kentucky Tobacco Team. At a news conference before the walk, Todd Warnick, Kentucky Tobacco Control Manager in Frankfort, recognized EDGEWOOD for being Kentucky's first "Smoke Free Community."
• 06/01/98 State Offers Smoke-free Incentive Kentucky Post
  
  State health officials hope communities follow the lead of Edgewood . . . Following a news conference Sunday at Presidents Park in Edgewood, state Tobacco Control Manager TODD WARNICK said the Department of Public Health plans to offer a financial incentive to health departments for smoke-free programs in the regions they serve.
  
  
• 05/31/98 MISSOURI: Health, Anti-smoking Groups Push Tobacco Advertising Ban Kansas City Star
  
  Rochelle Bonwell wouldn't be caught dead with cigarettes in her hand. She was among 125 people who attended the city's "Real Camels Don't Smoke" celebration Sunday at Swope Park. . . Several anti-smoking and health groups sponsored the event for World No-Tobacco Day, a project of the World Health Organization. The groups, and Missouri Rep. Pat Kelley, called for a ban on all tobacco outdoor advertising within two miles of schools and children's play areas. They also encouraged parents and neighbors to get involved in local anti-smoking efforts.
  
  
• 05/29/98 FLORIDA: Don't Smoke Here Miami Herald
  
  The East County Tobacco-Free Community Task Force offers "Dance Your Butt Off" at 8 p.m. Saturday at Valley Rally Fitness Club at 17631 147th St. SE in Monroe. The event celebrates WORLD NO TOBACCO DAY. Also on Saturday, the task force, Snohomish Health District, Liquor Control Board and law enforcement folks will conduct compliance checks at stores around east county to see how easy it is for kids to buy cigarettes.
  
  
• 06/01/98 PAKISTAN: No-tobacco Day Observed: Experts Want Smoking Discouraged DAWN Newspapers
• 05/29/98 PAKISTAN: Cigarette Cos Asked To Set Up Cancer Centres DAWN Newspapers
  
  Doctors representing different spheres of speciality on Thursday urged the government to enact a law banning smoking. They also demanded of the government to make it mandatory upon the cigarette manufacturers to compensate those who suffer from cancer owing to smoking. These recommendations were made by the experts at a well attended seminar held in connection with World No-Tobacco Day on Thursday at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).
  
  
• 05/29/98 SOUTH AFRICA: Money Spent On Tobacco Illness Could Be Spent Elsewhere: MEC ANC News Briefing
  
  Money spent on treating tobacco related illnesses could rather be used for treating Tuberculosis or researching a cure for Aids, Gauteng health MEC designate MONDLI GUNGUBELE said in Johannesburg on Thursday. . . South Africa is considering joining the World Health Organisation's call for a ban on tobacco advertising, sponsorships and promotions.
• 05/29/98 ZUMA Awarded Order Of Merit By Tobacco Action Group ANC News Briefing
  
  To mark World No Tobacco Day on May 31, the Tobacco Action Group awarded its Order of Merit to Health Minister NKOSAZANA ZUMA in Johannesburg on Thursday.
  
  
• 05/28/98 BRAZIL Declares "War" on Smoking AP/Dow Jones (pay registration)
  
  With smoking on the rise among poorer and younger Brazilians, the government declared "war" on tobacco, pledging tougher restrictions on advertising and smoking in public. Health Minister Jose Serra spoke at a ceremony Thursday to launch the World Health Organization's annual "World No-Tobacco Day," to be celebrated on Sunday. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso plans to prohibit cigarette advertising on television before 11 p.m., Serra said. . .
  
  
• 05/28/98 When Money Talks, Will Smokers Stop? The Star (Malaysia)
  
  This year, in conjunction with the National No Smoking Month (May 2 to 29) and World No Tobacco Day (May 31), Malaysia has been invited to join the INTERNATIONAL QUIT SMOKING AND WIN competition. Thus the MMA, in co-operation with the National Heart Foundation, National Cancer Council, Malaysian Youth Council and the Health Ministry, hopes that by dangling the proverbial carrot (in the form of a grand prize of US$10,000 or about RM38,000), smokers will be encouraged to quit their habit. The biennial competition was launched in 1994 by the NATIONAL PUBLIC AND HEALTH INSTITUTE AND CENTRE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION in Finland and has received good response worldwide.
  
  
• 05/31/98 UK: 'Stop Smoking' Plea To Parents PA
  
  Parents are being urged to quit smoking for the sake of their children as a new survey showed that children are almost three times as likely to smoke if their parents do. Brothers and sisters have an even greater influence on youngsters' smoking habits, according to the research which found that pupils are four times as likely to smoke if their siblings do. The survey of more than 3,500 pupils aged 11-15 in England by the Health Education Authority (HEA) was released to coincide with World No Tobacco Day.
• 05/31/98 Parents Urged to Quit Smoking BBC
  
  A survey says children are much more likely to take up the habit if their parents smoke.
  
  
• 05/31/98 INDIA: Trying To Grow Up Without Tobacco Times of India
  
  At 19, collegian Kaveri Sharma smokes about nine cigarettes daily. "I try to keep it down but when tension hota hai, I puff a few more," says Kaveri, who started lighting up at 16. "Smoking gives me a sense of freedom." Increasingly, for many young people like Kaveri, smoking is more than just a `time pass' activity. "It defines me and my social group," says 20-year old hostelite Vivek Sabnis. "I smoke mainly with friends -- it's a buddy-buddy thing for us."
  
  
• 05/31/98 JAPAN: Japanese PM Named Smoker Of The Year BBC
  
  May 31 is world No Tobacco Day, and to mark the event a Japanese no-smoking group has voted the Japanese prime minister the worst smoker of the year. PRIME MINISTER RYUTARO HASHIMOTO can frequently be seen puffing away on cigarettes during cabinet meetings. Attempts to ban smoking in government offices have not found favour with him. That's why the TOBACCO PROBLEMS COUNSELLING CENTRE in Tokyo voted Mr Hashimoto as Japan's worst smoker of the year. Second on the list was a famous pop star and third a film director.
  
  
• 05/31/98 SENEGAL: U.S. Ambassador Cautions On Tobacco Publicity PANA News
  
  The U.S. ambassador to Senegal, Dane Farnsworth Smit Jr, has cautioned youths in the country not to be lured into tobacco smoking by attractive publicity sports about cigarettes. He made the warning in a speech to the Senegalese public Sunday on the occasion of World No-Tobacco Day, whose theme is "Growing Up Without Tobacco."
  
  
• 05/30/98 60 Percent of ZAMBIAN Youths Smoke PANA
  
  The Zambian health ministry estimates that 60 percent of the country's youths above the age of 13 have taken to tobacco smoking. According to the minister of health, Prof. NKANDU LUO the teenagers also drink alcohol. Luo said this in a speech read on her behalf in Lusaka by her permanent secretary, Kashiba Bulaya, to mark World no Tobacco Day which is to be observed Sunday.
  
  
• 05/28/98 MALAYSIA: Teaching Dads The Star (Malaysia)
  
  WHY do kids smoke? . . Peer pressure, they say, and all those nifty cigarette ads that look so cool ... and adult role models? Yes, you read right. According to the United Nations, adults ‹ like pop stars, sports idols and parents ‹ are a humongous influence on young smokers. . . Who's to stop them, you ask? Why, clued-in, smart young people who are strong willed and secure enough to resist all those outside influences, of course. To mark world No-Tobacco Day this Sunday and its theme this year, Growing Up Without Tobacco, we spoke to two families which had dads who smoked and children who didn't like it at all ‹ and weren't shy about making their displeasure known.
  
  
• 05/31/98 WHO Warns INDIA Of Growing Epidemic Of Tobacco Use Deccan Herald
  
  
• 06/01/98 Today Is World No-tobacco Day; Ten Thousand Deaths A Day Due To Smoking Sri Lanka Daily News
• 05/30/98 SRI LANKA: World No Tobacco Day Sri Lanka Daily News
  
  
• 05/31/98 AUSTRALIA: Smokers Urged To Quit For At Least Today Australian Broadcasting Corp.
  
  Federal Health Minister Michael Wooldridge says tens of thousands of children end up in hospital every year because of asthma attacks triggered by their parents' cigarette smoke. Dr Wooldridge is using World No Tobacco Day to plead with parents to quit smoking for the benefit of their children.
  
  
• 05/29/98 SOUTH AFRICA: "Majority" Of South Africans Back Ban On Tobacco Ads ANC Briefing
  
  Three researchers claim the majority of South Africans support a ban on tobacco advertising and regulations controlling smoking in public places, according to a statement from the Medical Research Council. In a media release on Friday ahead of World No-Tobacco Day on Sunday, the researchers - from the MRC and Human Sciences Research Council - said the health minister should not be deterred by tobacco industry lobbyists from effecting the measures favoured by the public. . . The researchers, Priscilla Reddy, Jonathan Levin and Anna Meyer-Weitz, have completed a study of the effects of South Africa's first tobacco control legislation, which was introduced in 1993. . . More than two-thirds (average of 67 percent) of respondents in the three surveys supported government plans to ban tobacco advertising and regulate smoking in public places, while a third backed a ban on smoking in public places.
  
  
• 05/290/98 EUROPE: World No Smoking Day, 31 May 1998 European Commission Spokesman's Briefing
  
  Padraig Flynn, European Commissioner with responsibility for Public Health matters, today promised a continuation of the Commission's strategy to prevent smoking. "The recent agreement to outlaw publicity and sponsorship for tobacco products is a welcome step showing that the European Union (EU) is prepared to tackle the biggest cause of preventable death and disease in our society", he said. Mr Flynn also spoke about the plans of the Commission to reinforce the prevention of smoking through EU policies.
  
  
• 05/29/98 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY Announces the Formation of the First Institute for Global Tobacco Control; In Honor of World 'No Tobacco Day' on May 31, Physicians and Policy Makers Come Together for a Healthier Planet Business Wire
  
  In conjunction with World "No Tobacco Day," the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health today launched the JOHNS HOPKINS INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL TOBACCO CONTROL. The Institute will offer information to physicians and health officials around the world about tobacco's harmful health effects and how to control them, and will also help countries to identify the magnitude of their smoking problem and then develop effective policies for reducing rates of tobacco-related disease and death. SmithKline Beecham Consumer Healthcare, the world's leading marketer of smoking cessation products and programs, is joining with the Hopkins School of Public Health to establish the Institute.
  
  
• 05/30/98 MICHIGAN: Churches Get Behind Antitobacco Campaign Smokeless Sundays To Preach Good Health Detroit Free Press
  
  Twenty-two Detroit churches plan to preach a gospel of abstinence this weekend in what organizers hope will become the city's first annual Smokeless Sunday. "We're in the middle of a public-health crisis when it comes to tobacco," said Stephanie Kitchen, who is coordinating the program for her congregation, Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit. "The latest surgeon general's report shows there's an increase in smoking among African-American youth as high as 80 percent." . . The effort was led by a nonprofit group chaired by Kitchen, the Tri-Cities Tobacco Action Coalition, and a federal program, the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study.
• 05/28/98 MICHIGAN: World No Tobacco Day Celebrated in Area Churches; African American Churches Join Tobacco Revolt PR Newswire
  
  
• 05/29/98 EAST: WHO Kicks Off Global No-Tobacco Day Radio-Free Europe
  
  The fact that tobacco kills, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, is a message worth repeating. In order to do so, the WHO is sponsoring "No-Tobacco Day" (Sunday May 31), which this year is dedicated to children.
  
  
• 05/29/98 JAPAN Holds No Smoking Marathon AP
  
  Kicking the habit doesn't have to be painful. In fact, it can even be fun. At least that's the message from Japanese health officials, who are organizing a No Smoking Marathon to encourage this nation of inveterate smokers to give their lungs a break. The Ministry of Health and Welfare has signed up 45 chain smokers, who will try to go without a cigarette for the entire month of June, Japanese media said Saturday. Those who succeed will get a t-shirt -- and a taste of smoke-free living.

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