Why focus on smoking?    My concern is that children from families who are
more likely to smoke(working class, poor, etc.) will be stigmatized by
middle class kids.   What about a song targetting middle-class parents who
drive SUVs and unnecessarily pollute the air we all breathe?

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: "Dennis Raphael" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: February 4, 2003 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: [heart-l] Resources for Preschoolers


> Health promoters may be interested in the following exchange!
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> I strongly object to this strategy.
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> First of all it is not child care's role to turn children against their
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> or relatives who may be smokers.
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> Secondly, childcare should not be a place where children become exposed to
> politicized messages.  If my kid came home from childcare singing
anti-smoking
> songs the childcare would hear about it.
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> Thirdly, our family does not smoke!
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> Give these kids a break!!!
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> "Lisa Robinson" <[log in to unmask]>@list.web.net on 02/04/2003
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> Our Tobacco Working Group is looking for a simple resource
> (book, song,etc.) that can be used in daycares for children ages 1
> to 3 years old that incorporates a tobacco prevention message.
> Has anyone used a resource with this age group they found to be
> effective?
> You can reply to me directly at [log in to unmask]
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> Thanks!
> Lisa
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> Lisa Robinson
> HKPR District Health Unit
> Lindsay, ON
> 705-324-3569
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