Smoking prohibition in Europe Ewelina Kaczówka MPE.

Smoking prohibition Smoking prohibition in Europein Europe

Ewelina KaczówkaMPE

Goals of the presentationGoals of the presentation

To present the Public Relation process To present the Public Relation process

of smoking prohibition in Europeof smoking prohibition in Europe

The reasons of the idea of the tobacco ban

Managment of the information about these reasons

Forms of comunication within the managing/directing levels and with the society

ContentContent

European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)

European Network for Smoking Prevention (ENSP)

European Respiratory Society (ERS)

Anti-smoking programmes

Ireland and other countries having enforced smoking prohibition

The efficiency of smoking prohibition

Historical factsHistorical facts

Pope Urban VII banned smoking in the Church in 1590

The earliest citywide European smoking bans enacted in Bavaria, Kursachsen, and certain parts of Austria in the late 1600s

Smoking was banned in Berlin (1723), in Königsberg (1742), and in Stettin (1744)

The first modern, nationwide tobacco ban imposed by the Nazi Party in every German university, post office, military hospital and Nazi Party office in 1941

Major anti-tobacco campaigns were widely broadcasted by the Nazis until the demise of the regime in 1945

European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)

Established in 1993, after the ratification of the Maastricht treaty in 1992 (resulted in giving the responsibilities in health protection to the European Community)

Network of non-governmental organisations and other not-for-profit organisations

Field of activity: promotioning the process of consultation and co-operation between

NGOs and European Commission and Parliament promotion and protection of the health in Europe advocate of greater participation of citizens in

health-related policy (European level). developing civil dialoge

Strategy:

„„Health in Europe: a strategic approach”Health in Europe: a strategic approach”

www.citizens-science.org/ about_us/epha

European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)European Public Health Alliance (EPHA)

Members

Around 100 local, national, regional and European non-governmental (NGOs) and not-for-profit organisations;

Examples: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), United Kingdom Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH), United Kingdom European Council of Doctors for Plurality in Medicine (ECPM), France European Network for Smoking Prevention (ENSP), Belgium European Respiratory Society (ERS), Switzerland Life Quality Improvement Organisation (FLIGHT/LET), Croatia Slovenian Coalition for Tobacco Control (SCTC), Slovenia The Institute of Public Health in Ireland (IPH), Ireland Wiener Internationale Akademie fűr Ganzheitsmedizin (Gamed), Austria Health Promotion Foundation (HPF), Poland

European Network for Smoking European Network for Smoking Prevention (ENSP)Prevention (ENSP)

Established in Belgium, 1997 International non-profit-making organisation Administrative and financial coordinator above other

organisations

Strategy: co-ordinated action among organisations active in tobacco

control in Europe by sharing information and experience, co-ordinated

activities and research

http://www.ensp.org/enspnetwork/mission

Aim Aim (regional, national, EU level):(regional, national, EU level):

creating greater coherence i smoking-control activities

promoting comprehensive tobacco-control policies

effective intervention and contribution of tobacco control advocates in policies, strategies and measures

http://www.ensp.org/enspnetwork/mission

Project 2003: policy development by building procedures with regard to the

tobacco regulation directives and advertising ban smoke free work places NGO support in actions Colaboration and participation of NGOs in ancession countries

Within Comunication – organisation of meetings with attendance of all members

Plenary presentation, interactive workshops

http://www.ensp.org/enspnetwork/mission

European Respiratory SocietyEuropean Respiratory Society

Members in over 100 countries

Aims: alleviate suffering from respiratory disease promote lung health through research, knowledge sharing,

medical and public education.

Monthly journal devoted to lung disease the European Respiratory Journal (ERJ)

Many fields of activity (Education, research, comunication with other organisations – exchanging information, experience, knowledge)

ERS – fields of activityERS – fields of activity

The ERS School mission is to encourage and support training and continuous medical education (CME) in the field of Respiratory medicine by:

Organising Postgraduate Courses Actively developing e-learning programmes Providing educational research grants Organising interactive School Courses

ERS – fields of activityERS – fields of activity

To facilitate exchange of information and knowledge among its members, the ERS has 11 Scientific Assemblies. They influence and guide the scientific direction of the Society by:

Disseminating Guidelines Working closely with other national and international respiratory

societies Supporting Research Seminars on "hot" scientific topics Providing short- (up to 3 months) and long-term (12 months) training

and research fellowships Sponsoring Task Forces Determining the annual Congress programme

Programmes: Programmes: the Smokefree Class the Smokefree Class CompetitionCompetition

Co-funded by the European Commission

Carried out as a competition for pupils aged 11 to 14 years

www.smokefreeclass.info

The concept and materials are attractive and can be easily integrated in many different subjects.

www.smokefreeclass.info

Dimension of smoking prohibition in Dimension of smoking prohibition in paricular countriesparicular countries

IrelandIreland

29th March, 2004 – the Irish Government implemented a ban smoking in public places in Ireland.

smoking is illegal in enclosed places in Ireland office blocks, various buildings, public houses/bars, hotels, guesthouse

and B&B bedrooms, restaurants and company vehicles (cars and vans).

The ban introduced as part of the Public Health (Tobacco).

EnglandEngland

1July 2007, workplaces and enclosed public places – smokefree environments.

The Health Act 2006 defines enclosed public places and workplaces as being offices, factories, shops, pubs, bars, restaurants, membership clubs, public transport and work vehicles that are used by more than one person.

GermanyGermanyOn 22 March 2007 agreement about: ban smoking in restaurants and pubs, allow exemptions for small bars and premises with separate smoking

rooms. (This proposed ban had to be approved by each of the sixteen state

parliaments before it could come into force)

Berlin is set to be the first city in Germany to inforce the ban on smoking in public buildings, bars and restaurants.

On the 27 April 2007, the Federal Health Minister and the Federal Consumer Affairs Minister of Germany introduced a bill to ban smoking in buses, trains, taxis, stations and Federal government buildings as of 1 September 2007, while still providing the option for separate smoking rooms.

The sale of cigarettes prohibited to persons under 18.

http://snus-news.blogspot.com/2009/07/bavaria-states-parliament-loosened.html

The situationThe situation of smoking prohibition of smoking prohibition and different approache and different approaches (May, 2005)s (May, 2005)

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/nearlydone/Articles/economicNI.htm

The mobile blog of the BBC & Creative Partnerships Making Connections project in Sheffield, England

http://moblog.net/view/264088/has-the-smoking-ban-affected-teen-smokers

MERTHYR TYDFIL, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 19, 2007:

A man waiting for a bus smokes a cigarette underneath a billboard advertising the impending smoking ban. Smoking in all public places will be banned in Wales from April 2, 2007.

http://www.life.com/image/73636551

United Kingdom

http://sofiaecho.com/2009/06/30/746609_european-commission-calls-for-smoke-free-europe-by-2012

NO SMOKING:A cafe in Brussels (Belgium) makes the message clear.

Smoking Ban – One Year on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lQ8Y8o20v0

The efficiency of smoking prohibitionThe efficiency of smoking prohibition

Before…Before…

news.bbc.co.uk/2/ hi/europe/2288121.stm

After…After…

„A recent Eurobarometer poll suggests that popularity is mounting for smoke-free policies with 84 per cent of Europeans supporting smoke-free offices and other indoor workplaces; 77 per cent in favour of smoke-free restaurants, and 61 per cent supporting smoke-free bars and pubs.”

http://sofiaecho.com/2009/06/30/746609_european-commission-calls-for-smoke-free-europe-by-2012

Statistics of a number of smokersStatistics of a number of smokers

United Kingdom

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/smoking-ban-has-saved-40000-lives-856885.html

ReferencesReferences

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Public_Health_Alliance http://er.cintentx.ch/m/mandenten/179/download/2004_3_27_freg_en.pdf Raport ENSP framework project 2002/2003,

http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_projects/2002/cancer/fp_cancer_2002_frep_02.pdf www.smokefreeclass.info www.epha.org http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/smoking-ban-

has-saved-40000-lives-856885.html http://dev.ersnet.org/10-overview.htm http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_projects/2003/action3/action3_2003_06_en.htm http://www.ensp.org/enspnetwork/mission http://www.life.com/image/73636551 http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/nearlydone/Articles/economicNI.htm