Newsletter 88 - Tobacco Awareness Precampaign

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IPSF NEWSLETTER Tobacco Awareness Precampaign

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IPSF Public Health Edition Tobacco Awareness Pre-Campaign Newsletter

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Tobacco Alert Campaign in Nepal Tobacco Alert Campaign in India Tobacco Alert Campaign in Indonesia Further Information & Useful Links

Dear fellow IPSFers, World No Tobacco Day is recognized around the world every year on May 31st .

It is meant to encourage a 24-hour period of abstinence from all forms of tobacco consumption across the globe.

Hope that you will have a great campaign and don’t forget to share it with us!

For more information, please contact us via email at publichealth@ipsf.org and tobacco@ipsf.org.

Yours in IPSF,

rniasih – 2011 u K h t Dwi Rudinator 2010 o Coor c c a b o T

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IPSF Tobacco Awareness Campaign On the 31st of May each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) celebrates World No Tobacco Day. It is a day that highlights the health risks associated with tobacco use and advocates for effective policies to reduce its consumption. Tobacco use is the second cause of death globally and is currently responsible for killing one in every ten adults worldwide.

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The Tobacco Alert Campaign has grown to be one of the most popular initiatives of the Federation. Many of these campaigns target a younger audience (e.g. high school students), but there are also others that aim to educate IPSF members on how to effectively communicate public health messages to different target audiences and to use new initiatives to develop effective and informative presentations.

IPSF and WHO Joint Statement on Tobacco Control Apart from our local tobacco awareness campaigns held by members around the world, IPSF also strives to be a strong advocate on the international front. Among our various initiatives, the IPSF and WHO Joint Statement on Tobacco Control is an example of how we are constantly trying to bring increased awareness to the global community.

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Tobacco Alert Campaign in Singapore Key Facts • Tobacco kills up to half of its users • The annual death toll of more than five million could rise to more than eight million by 2030 unless urgent action is taken to control the tobacco epidemic.

• More than 80% of the world’s one billion smokers live in low- and middleincome countries.

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• Total consumption of tobacco products is increasing globally, though it is decreasing in some high-income and upper middle-income countries.

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Tobacco Alert Campaign in Nepal • Only 5.4% of people are protected by comprehensive national smoke-free laws.

• In 2008, the number of people protected from second-hand smoke increased by 74% to 362 million from 208 million in 2007.

• Of the 100 most populous cities, 22 are smoke free.

• Over 40% of children have at least one smoking parent.

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• Almost half of all children regularly breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke.

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Tobacco Alert Campaign in India “One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, ‘Whatever you do, don’t smoke. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.”

Bill Nighy, star in the UK on his 30year smoking habit (Daily Telegraph newspaper)

Do you still want to sit and do nothing?

Ideas for campaigns:

• Ask as many people you can and start brainstorming as

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a team.

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• Make a street campaign, tell people about the day by showing some campaign materials.

• Make a song to remind people to stop smoking and sing it on your campaign.

• Take ashtray with water in it, bring

it to smokers and ask him/her to put the smoke out there.

• Make it one day without smoke, give them candy or gum.

• Tell people about the Tobacco Alert Campaign by making a presentation in a workshop or spread the news by social media.

• Collaborate with the anti-tobacco organization or other community organizations in your country.

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Useful links

Further Information Useful links for organizing Tobacco Alert Campaign: http://www.who.int/tobacco/resources/publications/en/ http://tobacco.ipsf.org/ http://www.who.int/tobacco/publications/youth/en/index.html http://www.tobaccobook.com/Tobacco-blog.html http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=159471 http://www.facebook.com/pages/WHO-Tobacco-Free-Initiative/100643340596

Whenever you need more information, do not hesitate to contact Sharon Leung (Chairperson of Public Health) at publichealth@ipsf.org or Dwi Ruth Kurniasih (Tobacco Alert Coordinator) at tobacco@ipsf.org

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Also, don’t forget to fill in your activity report and share it with us!

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Happy Campaigning!

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