Anti-Tobacco Activism

QuikML13

Anti-Tobacco Activism
Are there any grass-roots anti-tobacco activists in Ireland? I am thinking of something like the great Australian Buga-Up movement.
ASH and the Irish Cancer Society do their best with tiny resources but the main activity is by the Department of Health. Their work is not bad, but they target smoking without ever commenting on what bastards the industry are.
Something a bit more visceral would be a good thing, to bring the industry and their sock puppets out in the open and make their smug, well paid lives just a little less comfortable.
The tobacco business kills half their customers, markets unethically to children wherever it can and is remarkably generous to politicians.
Anyone out there interested?

grindle

There's already an abundance of naysayers but they've been distracting themselves with ecigs - the ideal of anti-tobacco has morphed into anti-scientific zealotry (mostly perpetuated by the groups you've said are doing a good job in this country?).
It's probably a good thing that those dimwits are out of the picture, you might find people who're actually anti-smoking as opposed to mindless puritans.

QuikML13

Well Grindle, maybe we anti-smoking zealots have a point. Everyone else I spoke to in the Mater oncology ward had been a smoker. I have no doubt that many of them were not as lucky as I to survive. Still, I suppose as long as the Japanese and US companies make their profits, who cares about the body count?

zoobizoo

There's not much you can do regarding advertising like Buga as there is no advertising of tobacco allowed any more.

Having seen so many mothers and fathers smoking in front of their kids, (holding lit cigarettes at the same height as baby's head while in pushchairs etc) it's hard to know how to tackle such plain stupidity.

I hear you though... for me, the message about health that the Govt puts out about smoking doesn't work for anyone under the age of 18 as health isn't a main priority for teens.

If they started a "smoking is stupid" campaign, I think that it would be far more impactful on those who have not started yet and a "you obviously don't love your kids very much" aimed at those adults who smoke in cars and houses with kids.

Orion

This is a forum for people trying to quit. Not to organise anti-tobacco activism.