 |
Check
out our 2005 winners and participants!!
Check
out our 2004 winners and participants!! |
Unfiltered Facts
This new site is youth-driven with the purpose to expose the tobacco industry and
their manipulation of youth through sharing of the uncensored and unfiltered facts.
They do not give you health messages. They rebel against the tobacco industry's lies
and manipulation.
Stupid.ca
(Needs flash plugin)
This new youth driven site is sponsored by the Goverment of Ontario. STUPID.CA
exists as a project created to speak to youth here in Ontario. It is here to show
youth how the industry manipulates them and the effects that smoking can have. |
Smoking and the Movies - "Can Watching
Movies influence me to Smoke?"
Smoke Free Movies (http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu)
lists current movies and rates them as smoke free, smoking with negative
consequences or promotes smoking. See what brands are featured in the
movies and which actors and actress' are promoting smoking. Learn about
Big Tobacco companies and how they are influencing Youth. What can YOU do
about this? Check it out.
|
|
News
from the web . . . . . . . . . |
|
Below is an editorial published in The Sault Star today, May 3, 2005
Follow stop-smoking advice from student
(Source: The Sault Star; Date: May 3, 2005)
Apparently it takes a Grade 9 student to see clearly through the haze surrounding
the provincial government's anti-smoking legislation.
Stephanie Kwolek travelled from St. Basil school to Queen's Park last week to give
some advice to a legislative committee studying Bill 164, Ontario's provincewide ban
on smoking in workplaces.
She pointed out that the legislation does nothing to put an end to "power walls,"
those massive displays of tobacco products that greet shoppers at the cash register
of convenience stores.
Cigarettes should be out of sight and out of mind if we don't want young people to
start smoking, she said. Walls of cigarettes that the young consumer cannot avoid
will "normalize smoking," putting them in the same category as arguably less harmful
products such as lottery tickets and chewing gum.
We agree.
It seems astoundingly contradictory that a government that is hounding smokers and
demonizing tobacco use, outlawing it in most public and many private places, would
countenance huge displays of cigarettes in corner stores.
As Kwolek says, power walls are a very effective form of advertising and they affect
the consumer at the time of purchase.
Merchants are well aware that people will buy items that they may not have planned
to buy, if those items are displayed at the cash counter.
It seems silly that governments would go to great lengths to restrict tobacco
advertising and regulate packaging, yet allow what amounts to a billboard of tobacco
advertising behind the corner-store cash register.
Merchants might argue that they have to stock cigarettes behind the counter where
they can control them. But under the counter is behind the counter. It might be
inconvenient for convenience store owners to hide tobacco displays, but it is not
impossible.
Maybe our legislators should ask the advice of Grade 9 students more often.
|
| |
|
