WHO Partnership Activity 3

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Rights and Responsibilities

• Acts of whatever kind, which, without
  justifiable cause, do harm to others, may be, and
  in the more important cases absolutely require to
  be, controlled by the unfavourable sentiments,
  and, when needful, by the active interference of
  mankind. The liberty of the individual must be
  thus far limited he must not make himself a
  nuisance to other people.
• JS Mill On Liberty, Chapter 3

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Smoking Why Care?

• Smoking kills more than 100,000 people in the UK
  every year. A quarter of all adults smoke
• Smoking is the biggest cause of health
  inequalities
• Smoking accounts for HALF the difference in
  survival rates to age 70 between men in social
  class 1 and social class V it is not just an
  obsession of the learned middle class

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The Case for Smokefree Workplaces

• Tobacco smoke pollution is a health and safety
  risk
• Ending workplace smoking is the most effective
  method of reducing smoking prevalence.
• Ending workplace smoking will reduce health
  inequalities.

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Health Risks of Passive Smoking

• Lung Cancer 24
• Heart Disease 25
• More than 600 workers die in the UK each year
  from secondhand smoke exposure
• (Source Scientific Committee on Tobacco and
  Health, and Professor Konrad Jamrozik for British
  Medical Journal)

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Asthma and Secondhand Smoke

• 8 out of 10 people with asthma say that other
  peoples smoke worsens their asthma
• More than half of parents of children with asthma
  avoid restaurants and other venues with smoky
  atmospheres
• 4 in 10 adults with asthma avoid smoky pubs and
  restaurants
• 1 in 5 workers with asthma feel excluded from
  parts of their workplace where people smoke.
• (Source Asthma UK research)

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Too Many People are Still Exposed to Smoke at Work

• More than two million people in Great Britain
  still work in workplaces where smoking is allowed
  throughout.
• Another ten million people work in places where
  smoking is allowed somewhere on the premises.
• (Source http//www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/ht
  ml/onsworkplacefigures2004.html)

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Excuses, Excuses

• The opponents of action will rely on excuses.
• Non-smoking areas which simply fail to
  segregate non-smokers from the smoke
• Ventilation which will be expensive to
  install and wont work
• Bad for trade but the United States and Irish
  experience shows that it isnt
• Nanny state, middle-class obsession but
  smoking kills more people in social class V than
  in social class I and is the most important cause
  of health inequalities

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Smokefree is Popular
MORI poll for ASH (May 2004) shows Four out of
five (80) of those polled support a law to
ensure that all enclosed workplaces must be
smokefree  86 of social class AB supported the
proposal, 83 of social class C1, 79 of social
class C2 and 72 of social class DE Even regular
smokers support a new law the poll shows support
from 59 of daily smokers and 68 of infrequent
smokers
Source Mori poll March 2003 sample size 1972
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Smokefree is Good for Business

• Survey of 97 studies worldwide
• All independent studies found no negative impact
  on takings
• Negative studies had tobacco industry backing and
  most used subjective measures
• Source Scollo et al Tobacco Control 2002
• There is a good business case for unitary action
  at a national level everyone treated the same
  so no-one carries a particular business risk
• Exemptions for wet-led pubs and private clubs
  would create perverse incentives (less food
  served) and make health inequalities worse
  (wet-led pubs are concentrated in poorer
  communities

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Ireland A Success Story

• 94 of all workplaces inspected under the
  National Tobacco Control Inspection Programme
  were smoke-free
• Support for the smoke-free law among smokers and
  nonsmokers
• - 98 of people believe that workplaces are
  healthier
• - 96 of people feel that the smoke-free law is
  a success
• - 93 of people think the smoke-free law is a
  good idea
• Air quality in pubs has improved dramatically
  since the smoke-free law
• Levels of carbon monoxide have decreased by 45
  in non-smoking bar workers
• (Source Irish Office of Tobacco Control)

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Good Businesses are Acting First

• Pizza Hut strongly believes that families
  should be able to take time to have a leisurely
  meal in a restaurant without exposing their
  children to other peoples smoke. It is equally
  important that our staff can work in a smoke-free
  environment. We feel this is a significant step
  forward for the UK restaurant industry and
  hopefully some of our competitors will follow
  suit in the near future.
• Brian Rimmer, Operations Director, Pizza Hut
• Pizza Hut went 100 smoke-free in August 2003

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