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News 2008 National Tobacco Campaign29/09/2008 The National Tobacco Campaign has 6 new 30 second commercials. Quit SA will be airing the first three, Artery, Tumour and Brain from 5 October 2008 to December 2008. Tar, Lung and Eye will run for two weeks in April 2009.
View the advertisements Key Smoking Statistics in South Australia 22/09/2008 New data on South Australian Smoking Prevalence has been released from the from Tobacco Control Research & Evaluation Unit. Smoking prevalence data is an indication of the response to tobacco control initiatives. South Australian smoking prevalence is measured with the Health Omnibus Survey, an annual household survey of approximately 3,000 respondents. Smoking rates in 2007 were 20.6%. Smoking rates among young people (aged 15-29 years) were 23% in 2007.
Most people in South Australia (smokers included) are aware of the negative health effects of both active and passive smoking. Overall, 95.8% of the population and 92.7% of smokers believe smoking causes illness and/or damage to the body. There was a significant increase in awareness of the total sample from 2006 to 2007. 86.5% (77.8% of smokers) agreed that passive smoking causes illness and/or damage to the body, with lung cancer again being the most commonly mentioned health effect of passive smoking (41.9% overall, 34.4% of smokers). The majority of South Australians (73.3%) reported that they were concerned about being exposed to passive smoking, with 67.7% of people reported being exposed to someone else’s tobacco smoke in the past two weeks.
Similarly, support for bans on smoking in workplaces, hospitality venues, and other public places, continues to increase. Overall, community support for bans in hotels was very high and above the target (86.4%) as was community support for bans in gaming venues (87.6%).
Source: Hosking, J & Hickling, J., ‘Progress against ‘the South Australian Tobacco Control Strategy 2005-2010’: Report 3: January - December 2007. Adelaide, Australia: Tobacco Control Research and Evaluation, The Cancer Council South Australia, June 2008. Kids used as bait over tobacco laws 23/04/2008 Questions have been raised over the use of minors as bait to catch out vendors who are willing to illegally sell them cigarettes. The Opposition claims the South Australian Government is breaching its own industrial relations laws by rewarding the undercover helpers with department store vouchers, rather than paying them. Children as young as 14 are regularly sent in to try to catch out cigarette retailers who are selling to minors. View article... Smoking bans in pubs working 14/04/2008 The six-month old smoking bans in licensed venues have been a success key stakeholders say. www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23534031-2682,00.html?from=public_rss Clean Up Australian Day - Cigarettes top rubbish list 18/02/2008 Cigarette butts remained the most commonly found rubbish item for the 12th year in a row, accounting for 12.2 per cent of all items found. Source: www.news.com.au Smoking bans hit pokies 1/02/2008 Poker-machine takings have plunged by up to 25 per cent in some hotels as new smoking bans and fewer machines halt the relentless growth in gambling revenue. Office of the Liquor and Gambling Commission figures show revenue dropped from $217.22 million in the first quarter of 2007-08 to $190.76 million in the December quarter. Senator-elect Nick Xenophon, former state No Pokies MP, hailed the $26 million decline as the "most significant drop since poker machines were introduced" in 1994.
Source: Adelaide Now Big rise in lung cancer 25/01/2008 Private health insurance claims for lung cancer have soared 21 per cent for women and 24 per cent for men in five years, despite smoking rates falling to record lows. Health insurance giant MBF said the rise in lung cancer claims from 2002-06 was a deadly legacy of an era of few restrictions on sales of cigarettes and where they were smoked.
Source: Herald Sun Firm doling out free cigarettes reprimanded 9/01/2008 A marketing company hired by one of Australia's tobacco giants has been reprimanded by the Federal Health Department for recruiting non-smokers to take up the habit. The tactic has been described as underhanded and exploitative by doctors and the anti-smoking lobby, who want tobacco advertising laws to ban the tobacco industry from using market research and other types of viral marketing techniques.
Source: The Sydney Morning Herald Paris and Berlin ban cafe smoking 1/01/2008 Eight German states, including Berlin, have ushered in 2008 declaring their pubs and restaurants smoke-free. Almost a third of Germans smoke and the authorities in Berlin have decided not to enforce the restrictions actively for the first six months. In France, a law forbidding smoking in public places has now been extended to bars, cafes and hotels.
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