As the young boy ran from the translucent cloud of toxic cigarette smoke, he sent a powerful message about harm reduction.The No Durri for this Murri campaign aims to reduce indigenous smoking rates by getting the community thinking about harm reduction. North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health yesterday launched its second advertising strategy aimed the local Indigenous community.
The law banning tobacco products advertising has come into force. The document was signed by President Viktor Yanukovych and published in March, but has come into force as of September 16 according to transition provisions.
SMOKERS in the Vale are being urged to stub their cigarettes out and join a 28-day quitting challenge. Stoptober, the first ever mass quit attempt launched by the Department of Health, gets underway on Monday, October 1. The campaign is backed by Cancer Research UK and the British Heart Foundation and is bidding to encourage the nation's eight million smokers to give up.
Big Tobacco is fighting a multi-pronged battle to defeat a global wave of laws to force them to use graphic warning labels and plain packaging. It has won a major legal battle in the U.S. this month but it has lost in Australia.
