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Don't forget Worldwide Cigarette Butts ARE Litter Day of
Awareness and Action on the last Sunday of November each year.
Sunday 28 November 2010
See 2009 video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTOuvjNMIk
Awareness and Action on the last Sunday of November each year.
Sunday 28 November 2010
See 2009 video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xTOuvjNMIk
Visit this You Tube video and see how every person can save
the world!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnLZDbaoqC4
the world!
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Doctors fume at glamorisation of smoking in films
Film stars who smoke on screen should attract the attention of the censor in the same way as they would if they
were engaged in extreme sex or violence, doctors say. Films that show smoking in a way that "condones,
encourages or glamorises" the activity should be considered for reclassification – restricting them to an older
audience, the British Medical Association said. The association called yesterday for new curbs on the
promotion of smoking in the media and said the Government should set a target to make England smoke-free
by 2035.
More than one in five adults smokes and most start before they are 18 when they are most vulnerable to images
that "increase the allure of the habit", the BMA said in a report from its board of science. The portrayal of
smoking in films declined from 1950 to 1990, but has since increased. The poster for the 1994 movie Pulp
Fiction, showing a sultry Uma Thurman smoking, was a gift to the tobacco industry and an example of the sort
of image the BMA wants to outlaw. In the US, smoking has increased in films targeted at teenagers since 2002,
the report says.
The BMA says films showing smoking in a positive light should also be preceded by an anti-smoking advert. A
similar strategy to curb the promotion of cigarettes on television led to the voluntary withdrawal of tobacco
advertising in the 1970s. Cigarettes should be banned from sale in vending machines, removed from display in
shops and supermarkets and presented in plain packaging, the report says. The UK has one of the most
comprehensive tobacco control policies in Europe with a ban on smoking in public places, an advertising
ban, regular tax increases, an increase in the minimum age for buying cigarettes (from 16 to 18) and health
warnings on packets. But further efforts to reduce the appeal of smoking to the young are essential to achieve
the goal of eliminating it, the BMA says.
Source: The Independent, 07 July 2008 Also reported in The Guardian The Times BBC News
Link: http://tiny.cc/QTxUC
Film stars who smoke on screen should attract the attention of the censor in the same way as they would if they
were engaged in extreme sex or violence, doctors say. Films that show smoking in a way that "condones,
encourages or glamorises" the activity should be considered for reclassification – restricting them to an older
audience, the British Medical Association said. The association called yesterday for new curbs on the
promotion of smoking in the media and said the Government should set a target to make England smoke-free
by 2035.
More than one in five adults smokes and most start before they are 18 when they are most vulnerable to images
that "increase the allure of the habit", the BMA said in a report from its board of science. The portrayal of
smoking in films declined from 1950 to 1990, but has since increased. The poster for the 1994 movie Pulp
Fiction, showing a sultry Uma Thurman smoking, was a gift to the tobacco industry and an example of the sort
of image the BMA wants to outlaw. In the US, smoking has increased in films targeted at teenagers since 2002,
the report says.
The BMA says films showing smoking in a positive light should also be preceded by an anti-smoking advert. A
similar strategy to curb the promotion of cigarettes on television led to the voluntary withdrawal of tobacco
advertising in the 1970s. Cigarettes should be banned from sale in vending machines, removed from display in
shops and supermarkets and presented in plain packaging, the report says. The UK has one of the most
comprehensive tobacco control policies in Europe with a ban on smoking in public places, an advertising
ban, regular tax increases, an increase in the minimum age for buying cigarettes (from 16 to 18) and health
warnings on packets. But further efforts to reduce the appeal of smoking to the young are essential to achieve
the goal of eliminating it, the BMA says.
Source: The Independent, 07 July 2008 Also reported in The Guardian The Times BBC News
Link: http://tiny.cc/QTxUC
By the way, in New South Wales
you can report anyone you see
throwing rubbish (especially
cigarette butts) from their
vehicle to 131555 giving time,
date and location of incident plus
3 ID marks e.g. registration
number, colour and make of
vehicle, type of vehicle, etc.
you can report anyone you see
throwing rubbish (especially
cigarette butts) from their
vehicle to 131555 giving time,
date and location of incident plus
3 ID marks e.g. registration
number, colour and make of
vehicle, type of vehicle, etc.
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