| Country |
Organization |
Details |
Source/
Date |
| AUSTRALIA |
•
Australian
Senate |
Passed resolution
urging the Federal Government to "advise the Lao PDR that tobacco
companies in Australia have consistently opposed genuine measures
to reduce youth smoking rates and that their offers to sponsor education
activities should not be countenanced" Read
full text
|
Date:
9/24/03 |
| •
Chief Minister, Gary Humphries |
Claims
PM YSP Progam is a public-relations stunt, suggests to instead support
legitimate cancer support agencies |
Heagney,
Katharyn. "Cigarette company's anti-youth campaign slated as
'hyporcritical.'" The Canberra Times. 5 Jan. 2001, A3. |
| •
Simon Chapman, Professor of Public Health, Sydney University &
Editor, Tobacco Control |
Denounced
Phillip Morris-funded plan for interactive CD-ROM to educate young
people on substance abuse, claims it is a scheme to polish PM image |
Metherell,
Mark. "Smoke Giant Offers Lesson For Schools." Sydney Morning
Herald. 21 Sept. 2002, pg. 5. |
| BRAZIL |
• National
Cancer Institute of Brazil (INCA)
Branch of
Health Ministry of Brazil responsible for National
Tobacco Control Program
|
Was invited
to participate in Souza Cruz (Brazilian BAT subsidiary) "stakeholder
dialogue." One of Souza Cruz's main proposals there was a "youth
smoking prevention program". INCA's general director wrote
a letter of refusal, noting that he couldn't see any common interest
between INCA and the tobacco industry.
|
2001 |
| CAMBODIA |
•
Ministry of Education |
Rejected
proposal from tobacco industry |
2002 |
| CANADA |
•
Lungs Are For Life, The Lung Association and The Ontario Physical
and Health Education Association (OPHEA) |
Criticized
tobacco industry's own health promotion program, Wise Decision, and
created own official school program of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy
funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care |
"Former
'Winston Man' Slams Industry-Sponsored School Program; Last Tobacco
Pitchman Standing Makes Inaugural Canadian Tour." Canada NewsWire
10 May 2001 |
| •
The Government of Saskachewan |
Officially
banned Operation ID signs and the minister talks against the program.
View language of ban & further background information. |
Coalition
québécoise pour le contrôle du tabac
|
|
• Quebec
Coalition for Tobacco Control
• Quebec Lung Association
• Quebec
Public Health Association
• the Non-Smokers’ Rights Association (Quebec Office)
• Quebec Council on Tobacco and Health
• Canadian Cancer Society (Quebec Division).
|
The
following tobacco control groups have called for a boycott of Operation
ID School Zone, designed and funded by the Canadian Tobacco Manufacturers’
Council and distributed through the Canadian Coalition for Responsible
Tobacco Retailing. |
|
| CHINA |
•
Hong Kong Department of Education
• Hong Kong Department of Health
• Hong Kong Department of Social Welfare |
Education
Dept urged schools to not accept sponsorship or organize activities
with tobacco companies or institutions sponsored by them |
Yeung,
Linda. "Lingnan takes $20 million tobacco cash." South China
Morning Post. 29 June 2002., pg. 1. |
| KENYA |
•
National Agency for the Campaign Against Drug Abuse (Nacada) |
Decries
sponsorship of schools' music festivals by BAT and threatened to pull
its own support from the event if BAT continues to sponsor it |
The
East African Standard. "Kenya: Can BAT Keep Kids Off Smoke?"
Africa News. 25 Sept. 2002 |
| PHILIPPINES |
•
Department
of Health |
See
letter. |
3/02 |
| THAILAND |
•
Ministry
of Public Health |
See
newspaper article |
7/02 |
| TURKEY |
•
Ministry of Education |
Stopped program. In 2000, the Faculty of Education at Bosphorus University,
one of the oldest universities of Istanbul established by Americans
previously under the name of Robert College, announced the start of
a project in schools entitled "The Power is
Yours". The newspapers articles gave all the prestige to Philip
Morris for donating $100,000 to finance the project. The project was
about teaching students on the process of decision making, without
mentioning smoking. More
info |
National
Committee on Tobacco and Health |
| USA
- CA |
•
California Board of Education and Department of Justice |
When
Philip Morris sent "Kids don't smoke" bookcovers to schools
in California, wrote a joint memo to all schools in the state instructing
them to return or trash the bookcovers, pointing out that their distribution
was just a way for PM to promote it's corporate identity among children. |
American
Journal of Public Health (Anne Landeman) |
| USA
- IL |
•
Chicago Department of Public Health's Illinois Tobacco-Free Communities
Program |
Receives
its funding from the Illinois Department of Public Health and abides
by their guidelines of not partnering with Big Tobacco. |
Personal
communication, July 2002 |
| •
BNICEH (Black Network In Children's Emotional Health) |
Made
decision not to be part of any commercial advertising, award, funding
or public service campaign that is related to any youth tobacco prevention
program that has
been funded by any tobacco entity, including Kraft. We stand firm
in this commitment with the other 27 agencies that are involved in
our coalition: BNICEH SmokeOut Campaign. |
2000 |
| USA
- NE |
•
Nebraska 4-H |
One
of 27 state 4H groups to reject National 4H organization's partnership
with Philip Morris (1999) |
American Journal
of Public Health (Anne Landeman)
|
| USA
- CA |
•
Steve Sussman, Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Research (IPR) - USC |
Resigned
from advisory board of Philip Morris -funded "independent"
evaluation of youth smoking prevention programs and returned $4000
had received |
Personal
communication, 2003 |
| UNITED
KINGDOM |
•
Action on Smoking and Health
• Cancer Research Campaign |
Claims
tobacco industries' YSP programs are just a clever public relations
exercise, called on the tobacco industry to cancel all its youth initiatives |
Burns,
Jimmy. "National News: Tobacco Industries under fire on youth
campaign." Financial Times (London). 18 Apr. 2001 |