Barcelona March 2005

BARCELONA March 30-31, 2005

A European Expert Seminar on Women and Second-hand Smoke: A European Perspective, 30-31 March 2005, Barcelona.

From March 30-31, 2005 INWAT-Europe held an expert seminar on women and second-hand smoke. The purpose of this seminar was to bring together experts on women's' smoking, inequalities and gender to examine the issues of smoke free policy changes from a European perspective. Women will be affected as both active and passive smokers at work, in public places, and importantly, at home. As is well known, children's health is very liable to be affected by their exposure to tobacco smoke.

Lowering possible exposure to other people's tobacco smoke is increasingly recognized as a key policy of tobacco control. This is in part because of the growing understanding of the dangers of second-hand smoke. Indeed, the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) classified second-hand smoke as a carcinogen in 2002. The importance of smoke-free workplaces and public places is now recognized as a key policy to 'denormalize' tobacco use as well as to protect non-smokers from second-hand smoke.

The Seminar Paper " Women and Second-hand Smoke: A European Perspective"

Presentations

Speaker

PowerPoint Presentation

(if available)

DAY ONE: March 31, 2005

Trudy Prins, Netherlands

STIVORO and INWAT

Antoni Plasencia , Spain Minstry of Health, Catalunya

Welcome and Objectives

Patti White , UK

Health Development Agency

INWAT European Representative

Presentation of the discussion paper

available soon

DAY TWO: March 31, 2005

Sinéad Jones ,

Director of Tobacco Control UICC

The impact of second hand smoke on women and their children (pdf)

How do policy changes on smoke-free communities affect women in the workplace and the home?

Mathew O'Callaghan and Eddie Cassidy , Ireland

MANDATE

Women as workers; the case in Ireland

Smoke Free Workplaces A Trade Union View (pdf)

Brenda Fullard , England

At Home - A regional approach in the North West of England:

Smoke-free homes

What is the experience of Smoke-free Communities?

Maurice Mulcahy , Ireland

Western Health Board

Smoke-free Ireland (pdf)

Kari Huseby , Norway

Department of Tobacco Control

Smoke-free Norway

Smoke-free Norway advertisement 7,140KB

(may need media player to view)

Karen Gutierrez , USA

CDC

Smoke-free media messages from a woman's perspective (pdf)

Car Home Smoke Free Zone 3,391 KB

(may need media player to view)

Bar Pre 29/03/04 3,380 KB

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Lorraine Greaves , Canada

BC Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, INWAT Vice President

What do these policy changes mean for women's lives? (pdf) Responding to the day's presentations

Photo Gallery

Trudy Prins and Antoni Plasencia Director of Public Health for the Ministry of Catalunya welcomed participants to the seminar.

The Catalan Minister of Health Marina Geli i F à brega meets with INWAT-Europe Representatives and dicusses the plans for her government regarding second-hand smoke from a gendered perspective.

INWAT-Europe and members of INWAT-Spain with the Marina Geli i F à brega the Catalan Minister of Health

An observatory on women and health is being planned by the catalan government with the leadership of Carme Valls. Members of the group include : Left to Right Cristina Martinez Martinez , Irene Hernández del Rey, Dolors Marin and M Pau Marine (Photo F )