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 email/courriel: [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask] > ---------- > 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). 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