While I don't question in any way the links between smoking and lung
cancer, I also think it is important to address air pollution, and the
links to cancer. Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg's film "Exposure: Environmental
links to breast cancer" outline the relationships between industrial and
car pollution and their impact on people's health. A number of Healthy
Community groups have worked with their local industries to try to improve
this situation: Sudbury and Fort Frances are two good examples of that.

Clearly, it is important to continue the work around smoking and tobacco.
However, it is also important to address other factors that have an impact
on air quality.


Monique Beaudoin
Northeastern Community Animator/Animatrice communautaire du nord-est
Ont. Healthy Communities Coalition/Coalition des communautes en sante de
l'Ontario
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http://www.healthycommunities.on.ca

-----Original Message-----
From:   Greaves, Lynn RHD [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, May 31, 2002 8:20 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Smoking- was RE: job posting: Canadian Cancer Society - Manag
er,              Cancer Control Pr ograms

Well - I think it's important to point out that smoking is, in fact, not a
human rights issue.  I have checked with our human rights commission and
they tell me that there is no human right to smoke in human rights
legislation here or - as far as they're aware - in any other part of the
world.  In other words, smoking is not a human right.

They also inform me that there is nothing to prevent an employee from
hiring
someone on the basis of smoking status.

If ever the above were to be applied, surely a person working for the
Canadian Cancer Society would be an appropriate person to apply it to.  The
leading cause of cancer deaths in men and women is lung cancer with the
overwhelming majority of those dying from lung cancer being smokers.  This
position requires the person to implement programs to change lifestyle.  My
experience after years of running smoking cessation programs is that
smokers
are not nearly as effective in helping people quit as ex-smokers.

By the way - Today is World No Tobacco Day, May 13, 2002.  Tobacco kills 4
million people annually.  Health promotion people working in this area have
discovered it is  important to focus on the tobacco industry itself.  It
gains almost all of its new customers from those under 18 years of age.  In
the area of the world I come from, the average age of a new tobacco
industry
customer is 13 years - This is well before the individual is able to assess
the dangers and long term consequences of becoming addicted to tobacco.
I encourage you to visit the World Health Organization's website at
www5.who.int/tobacco/page.cfm     W.H.O. has documented many of the ways
the
tobacco industry addicts children and youth to become their new customers.

>
Lynn Greaves
Public Health Services
Regina Health District
2110 Hamilton St
Regina, SK Canada S4P 2E3
306-766-7903  Fax 306-766-7798
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> ----------
> From:         Joe Levy[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Reply To:     Health Promotion on the Internet
> Sent:         May 31, 2002 1:44 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Smoking- was RE: job posting: Canadian Cancer Society -
> Manager,              Cancer Control Pr ograms
>
> I have some serious concerns! What is next? Being overweight! Consuming
> red meat! Drinking diet Cola!
> These types of ads give the entire health field a very negative public
> perception. People are not perfect, will never be perfect and health is
> all about helping people cope with their imperfections not about
> ostracizing people from society.
> Joe
> Professor
> Social Medicine
>
> Sherrie Tingley wrote:
>
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Anyone have any thoughts on the job requirement below that people have
to
> be
> >non-smokers?
> >
> >S
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Health Promotion on the Internet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> >Behalf Of Natalie Parry
> >
> >
> >The National Office of the Canadian Cancer Society is seeking a Manager
> for
> >the Cancer Control Programs Department. The position is a full-time,
> >contract position to December 31, 2003.
> >
> >Details are as follows...
> >
> >DEPARTMENT FUNCTIONS
> >
> >*       Implementation of cancer control programs (i.e., activities
> designed
> >to change lifestyle or improve quality of life).  These programs could
> >include self-help, one-to-one, group, or social marketing and be
> delivered
> >by volunteers and/or health professionals/educators and through the web,
> >telephone or in person.
> >
> >
> >MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
> >
> >*       Non-smoker
> >
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