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WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1982

HE URGED ALSO THAT MORE PUBLIC FINANCIAL SUPPORT BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR SPORTS ACTIVITIES FOR THE YOUNG, TO OFFSET THE POSSIBLE +MISLEADING+ INFLUENCE OF TOBACCO-COMPANY SPONSORED SPORTING EVENTS.

ANOTHER UNOFFICIAL MEMBER, THE HON SELINA CHOW, DECLARING ER INTEREST AS A REFORMED SMOKER, SUPPORTED THE MOTION +WITH

DEEP SENSE OF APOLOGY TO FR MCGOVERN AND ALL SMOKERS.+

STATING THAT SHE HAD TO SAY +JUST A FEW WORDS ON THE PCSP' (PERSECUTION OF CIGARETTE SMOKERS PACKAGE)+, SHE NOTED THAT CIGARETTE SMOKING HAD NEVER BEEN BRANDED AS A SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE ACT, BUT WAS, ON THE CONTRARY, +VERY MUCH A STATUS SYMBOL,+ AND THAT IMAGE WAS USED TO ENTICE NEW CONVERTS.+

THINGS HAD CHANGED TODAY. +CLEAN AIR IS THE FASHION, THE PURSUIT OF HEALTH THE STATUS SYMBOL, + SHE SAID, ADDING THAT +NON-SMOKERS SHOULD REMEMBER THAT SMOKERS ARE JUST AS ENTITLED TO THE AIR AS THEY ARE.+

THERE WERE AN ESTIMATED 889 400 SMOKERS AND THIS WAS NOT A SMALL MINORITY, SHE SAID.

+THE SHEER NUMBER JUSTIFIES SOME CONSIDERATION IN THE DEGREE OF PERSECUTION TO BE EXECUTED, + SHE CONCLUDED.

TWO OTHER UNOFFICIALS SUPPORTED THE MOTION, AND SPOKE OF THE HAZARDS OF SMOKING.

THE HON WONG LAM, IN HIS SPEECH, ALSO CALLED ON THE GOVERNMENT TO PROVIDE HELP IN HOSPITALS FOR PEOPLE WHO WISH TO RID THEMSELVES OF THE SMOKING HABIT,

THE HON CHAN KAM CHUEN, POINTING TO THE HEALTH AND FIRE DANGER, AS WELL AS THE HEAVY COST OF SMOKING TO SOME PEOPLE, CALLED FOR SUBSTANTIALLY HIGHER TAX ON TOBACCO. HE SAID ALSO THAT POLICE ACTION SHOULD BE TAKEN AGAINST PEOPLE VIOLATING THE PROVISIONS OF THE LEGISLATION, AND CALLED FOR GREATER PUBLICITY ON THE SUBJECT.

THE SECRETARY FOR SOCIAL SERVICES, THE HON E.P. HO, THANKED MEMBERS FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND SAID ENFORCEMENT WOULD CERTAINLY BE ASSISTED IF THERE WAS ACTIVE PUBLIC SUPPORT, AND IT WAS INTENDED THAT THIS WOULD BE ACHIEVED BY MORE POSITIVE PROMOTION OF PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION.

PARTICULAR ATTENTION WOULD BE PAID TO THE YOUNGER MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.

THE PURPOSE OF THIS WAS NOT TO PERSECUTE SMOKERS, BUT RATHER TO EDUCATE AND EVENTUALLY CO‘VEPT THEM, HE SAID.

+THE CONTENT AND MANNER OF CIS-RETTE ADVERTISING ON RADIO, TELEVISION AND ON CI:EMA COTIENS HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF CLOSE EXAMINATION BY THE COMMIS31 2FOR TELEVISION AND ENTERTAINMENT LICENSING AND A TIGHTER CO

CTICE HAS BEEN PRODUCED. THIS JANUARY 1, 1983.

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