VicHealth and Quit have welcomed the Federal Government’s bid to ban internet advertising of tobacco products, announced in Parliament today.
Quit and the Heart Foundation (Victoria) have applauded a decision by Port Phillip City Council on Monday night (November 8th) to ban smoking on its beaches from December 1, 2010.
Quit's first positive anti-smoking campaign in almost two decades urges smokers to Never give up giving up.
Tobacco displays will be hidden in most retail outlets in Victoria from January 1st, 2011 as legislation banning them comes into force.
Yarra council last night voted to investigate outdoor smoking bans in areas such as alfresco dining spaces, parks and playgrounds.
A major tobacco-industry funded advertising blitz has backfired, with new research revealing the “It won’t work, so why do it” campaign persuaded more people to support the plain packaging of cigarettes than oppose it.
The ‘Who will you leave behind?' campaign features Perth brothers, Luke (31) and Ben (29) Eliot, whose father Neil passed away in 2007 from lung cancer caused by his smoking.
Quit's latest campaign asks smokers who are parents to consider what may indeed be worse than getting diagnosed with a smoking related illness, having to tell your children.
Quit Victoria's latest advertising campaign depicts powerfully the personal and emotional impact that smoking-caused illnesses have on the lives of smokers' families, particularly their children.
Baw Baw Shire Council has become the first local government in Victoria to ban smoking in outdoor dining areas on council land across the municipality.
The 2007 advertisement titled "Echo 3 (Quitting is hard...but you're not alone)" produced by the Cancer Institute NSW, encourages smokers to put quitting on 'today's agenda' by tackling the excuses for delaying quitting.