Cancer Council NSW is meeting with and urging all Central West candidates for the March 2019 state election to support its Saving Life 2019 campaign. The council has three demands. It wants successful candidates to amend the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2000 to introduce an annual retailer fee to discourage retailers from selling tobacco products and ban tobacco vending machines, and also bring an amendment to the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000 to ensure that people working or socialising in bars and clubs in NSW are protected from second-hand smoke. The councils other two demands are taking junk food advertisements from state-owned properties, including public buses, and providing funding for public lymphoedema services across NSW. Read also: Chemicals used on creepy crawlies could kill pets too: NSW Government Cancer Council representatives have met Bathurst MP Paul Toole and Orange MP Phil Donato for their support and are planning to meet Labor candidates. Mr Donato said he strongly supports Cancer Councils call for the funding of lymphoedema services. “On October 23 this year, I requested Health Minister Brad Hazzard MP give consideration to providing equitable access to specialist lymphoedema services for the people living in the Orange electorate, which the residents of Bathurst and Dubbo presently benefit from,” Mr Donato said. “I asked Mr Hazzard to consider opening lymphoedema clinics through which health and allied health staff could assist patients suffering from cancer and coping with lymphoedema.” Bathurst MP Paul Toole was not available for a comment. Mr Donato said he also supports the Cancer Council demand to protect people and bar workers from second-hand smoke. “I am aware of bar and club workers, who never smoked, and who now have been diagnosed with lung cancer and other respiratory diseases through exposure to tobacco smoke in their workplaces,” he said. “We now need to do more to protect workers from being exposed to second-hand smoke which can lead to fatal disease.” Read also: Daily Dubbo-to-Orange return service part of expanded bus routes proposed Cancer Council Central West community programs co-ordinator, Fiona Markwick, said smoking is the reason behind 5500 deaths and 47,000 hospitalisations every year in NSW. “New data shows that NSW smoking rates have flatlined since 2013,” she said. “Smoking places a huge burden on the community and on peoples lives, so the government must act now.” Community members can support the Saving Life 2019 campaign by signing an online postcard at canact.com.au
Cancer Council NSW is meeting with and urging all Central West candidates for the March 2019 state election to support its Saving Life 2019 campaign.
The council has three demands.
It wants successful candidates to amend the Public Health (Tobacco) Act 2000 to introduce an annual retailer fee to discourage retailers from selling tobacco products and ban tobacco vending machines, and also bring an amendment to the Smoke-free Environment Act 2000 to ensure that people working or socialising in bars and clubs in NSW are protected from second-hand smoke.
The councils other two demands are taking junk food advertisements from state-owned properties, including public buses, and providing funding for public lymphoedema services across NSW.
Read also:
Cancer Council representatives have met Bathurst MP Paul Toole and Orange MP Phil Donato for their support and are planning to meet Labor candidates.
Mr Donato said he strongly supports Cancer Councils call for the funding of lymphoedema services.
“On October 23 this year, I requested Health Minister Brad Hazzard MP give consideration to providing equitable access to specialist lymphoedema services for the people living in the Orange electorate, which the residents of Bathurst and Dubbo presently benefit from,” Mr Donato said.
“I asked Mr Hazzard to consider opening lymphoedema clinics through which health and allied health staff could assist patients suffering from cancer and coping with lymphoedema.”
Bathurst MP Paul Toole was not available for a comment.
Mr Donato said he also supports the Cancer Council demand to protect people and bar workers from second-hand smoke.
“I am aware of bar and club workers, who never smoked, and who now have been diagnosed with lung cancer and other respiratory diseases through exposure to tobacco smoke in their workplaces,” he said.
“We now need to do more to protect workers from being exposed to second-hand smoke which can lead to fatal disease.”
Read also:
Cancer Council Central West community programs co-ordinator, Fiona Markwick, said smoking is the reason behind 5500 deaths and 47,000 hospitalisations every year in NSW.
“New data shows that NSW smoking rates have flatlined since 2013,” she said.
“Smoking places a huge burden on the community and on peoples lives, so the government must act now.”
Community members can support the Saving Life 2019 campaign by signing an online postcard at canact.com.au
This story Cancer Council seeks smoking support from candidates before March election first appeared on Western Advocate.
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