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SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1967

PROVISIONAL COUNCIL ON SMOKING AND HEALTH FORMED

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PROVISIONAL COUNCIL ON SMOKING AND HEALTH HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED TO PAVE THE WAY FOR SETTING UP A FORMAL COUNCIL WHICH WILL SERVE AS THE FOCAL POINT FOR ALL ACTIVITIES RELATING TO THE HAZARDS OF SMOKING.

ANNOUNCING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THIS PROVISIONAL DOBY WHICH WOULD DE GAZETTED NEXT FRIDAY, A GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY (SATURDAY) THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THE COUNCIL WOULD BE TO

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CO-ORDINATE ACTION AND DISSEMINATE INFORMATION REGARDING THE HEALTH HAZARDS TO THE POPULATION ARISING FROM THE USE OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS.

+ITS_TASKS VILL JE TO PREPARE, PROPOSE, CO-ORDINATE, SUPERVISE AND UNDERTAKE MEASURES AGAINST THE HARMFUL EFFECTS OF TOBACCO,* HE SAID.

THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL IS URBAN COUNCILLOR DR RONALD D.3. LEUNG WHO IS A BANKER AND A QUALIFIED DOCTOR, +THE MEMBERS ARE DRAWN FROM A WIDE RANGE OF SECTORS OF SOCIETY,

SECTORS OF SOCIETY, • THE SPOKESMAN ADDED.

HALF THE MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL ARE MEDICAL EXPERTS, NOMINATED BY THE TWO MAJOR MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS IN HONG KONG AND THREE SPECIALIST BODIES PARTICULARLY CONCERNED WITH DISEASES ST DIRECTLY LINKED TO SMOKING,

REPRESENTING THE HONG KONG HEDICAL ASSOCIATION AND THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION'S HONG KONG BRANCH ARE PROFESSOR STUART P DONNAN, OF THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY'S DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY MEDICINE, AND DR JUDITH MACKAY, WHO HAS PLAYED AN ACTIVE ROLE IN HONG KONG ON MANY NEALTH 198UES, PARTICULARLY AGAINST THE RISKS OF SMOKING.

THE OTHER MEDICAL SPECIALISTS'ARE DR POON_YEUK_FOO, OF THE HONG KONG ANTI-CANCER SOCIETY, DR JOSEPH Y.C. PAN, OF THE NONG KONG HEART FOUNDATION LTB, AND MR JAMES YUE, THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE HONG KONG TUBERCULOSIS, CHEST AND HEART DISEASES ASSOCIATION.

THE REST OF THE MEMBERSHIP INCLUDES TWO DISTRICT BOARD MEMBERS: HR ERIC LI KA÷CHEUNG, OF EASTERN DISTRICT, AND MS HOHA LO, OF KWPN TONG DISTRICT, MR LIĜIS AN ACCOUNTANT AND MS LO IS A COMMUNITY HEALTH

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ALSO ON THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL ARE MR JOB ́YOUNG JEE KEUNG, A SOLICITOR BY PROFESSION= MR PAUL VONG SUI LEUNG, A BUSINESS EXECUTIVE WITH EXPERIENCE IN ADVERTISING AND BROADCASTING, AND MR TIMOTHY HA WING-HO. THE PRINCIPAL OF A SECONDARY SCHOOL ́AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GRANT SCHOOLS COUNCIL.

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THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL WILL ALSO BE ASSISTED BY DR RUBY KHOO, "BEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE MEDICAL AND HEALTH DEPARTMENT, AND MR PETERˇ

MOSS, ACTING DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE INFORMATION SERVÍCES DEPARTMENT. THE COUNCIL WILL BE SERVED BY AN ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE HEALTH AND WELFARE BRANCH.

THE SPOKESMAN SAID THAT THE PROVISIONAL COUNCIL IS LIKELY TO MEET IN THE NEAR FUTURE TO WORK OUT ITS SCHEDULE OF WORK.

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