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WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1987

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ESTABLISHMENT OF HEALTH COUNCIL SUPPORTED

HIN-KWONG TODAY

(WEDNESDAY)

THE

CARRY

SUPPORTED CHIU DR THE HON ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HONG KONG COUNCIL ON SMOKING AND HEALTH TO OUT THE DUTIES IN ALIGNMENT WITH GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-SMOKING POLICY.

SPEAKING IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN SUPPORT OF THE HONG KONG

BILL 1987, HEALTH

DR CHIU

BILL SAID THE COUNCIL ON SMOKING AND

TO TAKE ANOTHER STEP SIGNIFIED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD DETERMINED TOWARDS THE PREVENTION OF THE HAZARD OF SMOKING WHICH WAS AN ADDICTIVE HOBBY RESPONSIBLE FOR 10 PER CENT OF DEATHS EACH YEAR IN HONG KONG.

WISE DECISION OF A FROM ELECTRONIC MEDIA,

THE FIRST STEP BY THE GOVERNMENT WAS ITS PHASED-IN TOTAL BAN ON TOBACCO ADVERTISEMENT HE SAID.

DR

CHIU

POINTED

COLLEAGUES OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY, THE HONG KONG SMOKE-OUT COMMITTEE.

OUT

THE BILL THAT FUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCY, CARDIOLOGICAL SOCIETY

WAS

WELCOMED

THE

HIS

BY ANTI-CANCER AND THE HONG KONG

ΤΟ PUBLICISE TAX OF TOBACCO

TO ABLE

AFFECT

HE SAID EFFORTS TO RESTRICT TOBACCO ADVERTISING, HEALTH WARNINGS ON CIGARETTE PACKET AND TO RAISE THE GOVERNMENT WAS AREAS THAT PRODUCTS WERE THE ONLY DIRECTLY IN ITS ANTI-SMOKING POLICY.

INFLUENCED BY

WHILE OTHER FACTORS THAT COULD NOT BE SIMILARLY

AS SOCIAL PRESSURE, PEER GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION, SUCH PARENTAL AND TEACHER EXAMPLE, MIGHT HAVE MORE IMMEDIATE YOUNG PEOPLE'S DECISION TO SMOKE, HE SAID.

INFLUENCE,

INFLUENCE ON

"IF THESE AREAS ARE NOT GIVEN SPECIAL CONCERN, SMOKING OR GOVERNMENT POLICY ON HEALTH

ACHIEVE

THEIR

DESIRED

RESULTS

AND

EDUCATION CAN ONLY HOPE WILL EVENTUALLY

PROVE

LEGISLATION ON ΤΟ BB

ΤΟ

INEFFECTIVE," HE SAID.

NOTING THAT IT WAS

CHIU STARTED TO SMOKE, DR SHOULD LOOK INTO WAS SPORTS

ALWAYS MORE YOUNGSTERS THAN ADULTS WHO SAID ANOTHER AREA THAT THE GOVERNMENT SPONSORSHIP BY THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY.

A3 ADVERTISING то

HE SAID THOSE SPORTS SPONSORSHIP MIGHT ACT YOUNG PEOPLE.

CONTROL

THERE SHOULD BE A STRICTER DR CHIU SUGGESTED THAT

FROM THE ADVERSE EFFECTS OF MEASURE TO PROTECT NON-SMOKING PEOPLE

IN PASSIVE-SMOKING, BECAUSE A SURVEY OF PUBLIC OPINION CONDUCTED HERE

WERE IN 1981 SHOWED THAT MORE THAN THREE QUARTERS OF THE RESPONDENTS FAVOUR OF BANNING SMOKING IN ALL ENCLOSED PUBLIC PLACES.

VARIOUS

ABOUT WHETHER SUFFICIENT FUND HE SAID HE WAS ALSO CONCERNED WOULD BE ALLOCATED TO THE COUNCIL TO ENABLE IT TO PERFORM ITS FUNCTIONS EFFECTIVELY AND EFFICIENTLY.

FINALLY, DR CHIU STREESED:

GOVERNMENT

IN ANTI-SMOKING PROGRAMMES, WITHOUT WHICH THE DOOMED TO BE A FAILURE.

COMMITMENT IS CRUCIAL CONCERNED EFFORTS ARE

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