Since we are on the topic of smoking cessation, does anyone know where
someone can get Nicoderm or any of the 'patches' for free. I know a teenager
who wants to quit and would like to try the patch but she nor her family has
the money to purchase the patch. They do not live in the Toronto area.

I sincerely hope someone can direct me to a free resource.

Lynn Lavallee

-----Original Message-----
From: Health Promotion on the Internet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Robb Travers
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:39 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [heart-l] Resources for Preschoolers


you speak of the "politicizing of tobacco issues" without once mentioning
the "social context"  within which people smoke, why they smoke, or how they
came to smoke -- people do not smoke in a social vacuum.  the links to
poverty for example?  the moralizing and stigmatizing of smoking?  the
playing field isn't equal when you tell a child "not to run into
traffic"....teaching 1 - 3 year olds "lifestyle correctness" is merely
obscuring the social roots of disease for yet another entire generation. .
good health promotion?  I'd say not.


Robb Travers, Ph.D (c)
Research Associate,
HIV/AIDS Social Research Group
KTH 208, McMaster University,
Hamilton, ON
905 977-7622

Research Affiliate,
HIV Social, Behavioural & Epidemiological Studies Unit,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto,
Toronto, ON
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From: "Greaves, Lynn RQHR" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: February 6, 2003 8:13 PM
Subject: [heart-l] Resources for Preschoolers


> I have been following the discussion on educating children about
> smoking with keen interest as I am working in the area of tobacco
> control. Unfortunately, my email address changed and until today I
> haven't been
able
> to post a message.  Now all is clear, so here we go:
>
> Tobacco control is an emerging area of population health that has
identified
> "best practices"  - those evidence-based strategies that have been
> shown
to
> reduce the number of people who smoke and the number of children and
> youth who start to smoke.
>
> They include - increased taxation, smoke free public and workplaces,
> and banning of advertising and promotion.
>
> Cessation programs exist because everyone should have help if they want to
> quit.   But cessation programs focusing on the individual smoker are not
the
> most effective way to reduce smoking deaths and disease.
>
> Those involved in effective tobacco control, in jurisdictions where
> death rates and youth smoking rates decrease, for example British
Columbia, have
> implemented "best practices".   And they have reaped the rewards in terms
of
> fewer people smoking their way to an early grave and fewer children
becoming
> addicted to a product that leads half of its users to premature death.
>
> That being said, there are probably scenarios where health people are
> focusing on helping smokers, when to be really effective they should
> be implementing best practices.  And that being said, there are
> probably some people 'overhelping' low income smokers.
>
> But to suggest that children should not learn about tobacco is to send
> children into the world without arming them with the facts about the
dangers
> that exist.
>
> Telling children the truth about tobacco is not a 'political
> statement'.
If
> I tell children not to run out in traffic, that is not political.
>
> Children are bombarded by messages that smoking is cool and an "adult
thing
> to do".  Many of these come from the tobacco industry that promotes
smoking
> through sponsorship, and through advertising such as in tobacco
> product displays - also called 'power walls' - which are placed right
> next to the candy and other kids' stuff in stores across the country.
>
> Children are rarely told that 90% of adults who smoke became addicted
> when they were children and youth.  And then later, when they became
> adults,
they
> wished they could quit but found it very difficult because they had
> become addicted.
>
> Most parents who smoke wish they had never started and hope to heck
> their children never start.
>
> Most educators of young children do not educate in order to offend any
> smoking parents.  They are painfully aware that their teaching,
> although initially accepted by young children, can later be overridden
> by tobacco industry promotion, peer pressure, and experimental
> behaviour by youth who have no idea of how addictive tobacco can be.
> For example, in one study, 92% of teenagers said they wouldn't be
> smoking in a year.  A year later,
99%
> were still smoking.
>
> Children need help to escape a product that first addicts, and then
> kills.
>
> The politicizing of tobacco issues is done by the tobacco industry who
> fights any tobacco control strategy that has been shown to work
> (smoking bans, bans on advertising and promotion, increased taxation)
> and supports any strategy that hasn't been shown to work (ventilation,
> youth possession laws).
>
> Industry "front groups" whining about economic losses are common
everywhere
> even though mountains of scientific studies show there are no economic
> losses with smoking bans.
>
> Case in point:
> Here in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, on February 18,
> Rothmans, Benson & Hedges Inc will appeal the banning of tobacco
> product displays in public places where children have access.  These
> displays ostensibly for storage purposes are no more than blatent
> tobacco advertising.  The ban
has
> been well accepted by the public in our province.  Our provincial
> pharmaceutical association says "Compliance is high.  There have been
> no significant problems or failures, economically or otherwise."
>
> The industry's legal challenge was dismissed last year and now they
> are using their massive resources to appeal.
>
> Wish us well.
>
> And please also wish the children of our province well.
>
> Lynn Greaves
> Public Health Services
> Regina Qu'Appelle Health Region
> 2110 Hamilton St
> Regina, SK Canada S4P 2E3
> 306-766-7903  Fax 306-766-7798
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