August odds & ends

[Anna White]

Dear Friends,

A few odds & ends...

JULY/AUGUST QUESTION - DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 1, 2003
Thanks to all you have responded already to July/August 2003's question:
What are some arguments that the tobacco industry uses to fight,
counter, and ridicule tobacco control efforts in your state/country --
and what are some effective, informed, creative rebuttals?

If you have not sent in your response yet, please note that the deadline
is SEPTEMBER 1, 2003.  A compilation of responses will be forwarded to
the GPTC list soon after. For more details, click on:
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/gptc/2003q3/000068.html

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GPTC PARTICIPANTS CONVENE AT WCTOH 2003!
We will be sending more information about the 12th World Conference on
Tobacco or Health in early September.  In the meantime, here are a few
photos to tide you over.  If you attended the conference and have
additional photos that you would like us to share with other GPTC
participants, please email or mail them to Essential Action by September
1, 2003

Essential Action's bustling GPTC "Networking & Action" Room
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/room3.jpg
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/room5.jpg

Arta Lena and Roland Shuperka of For a Tobacco Free Albania show off
artwork (plate and a large mural in Tirana) done by teen tobacco control
advocates.  The image features a caricature of Philip Morris eating
thick stacks of dollar bills, symbolic representations of tobacco
industry corruption of government, and a smoke-free (vs. "smoke-full")
Albania
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/artaroland.jpg

Michelle Bloch, associated with Smoke Free Maryland, meets the
organization's Romanian partner, Cornel Radu of Aer Pur Romania, for the
first time
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/michellecornel.jpg

Ken Dahlgren (Reality Check, USA-NY) and Adeola Akinremi (JATH, Nigeria)
pose in front of a poster detailing a joint campaign their groups
launched re: BAT's use of Warner Bros films in Nigeria
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/kenadeola.jpg

After 3 years of collaboration by phone and email, Liliana
Tsoneva-Pentcheva (Association Women Against Tobacco - Bulgaria) and Pat
Hale (USA-OH) finally met face-to-face in Helsinki!
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/lilianapat.jpg

Edith Koryo Wellington (Ministry of Health, Ghana) poses next to a
banner featuring her country
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/ghana.jpg

Youth take action!
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/silenced3.jpg
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/silenced.jpg

"Licensed to Kill" CEO Rich Fromdeth and fellow corporate executives hit
the WCTOH exhibit hall
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/ltkexecs2.jpg

Seun Akioye (JATH, Nigeria) speaks at the closing plenary, on behalf of
youth advocates attending the conference
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/seun.jpg

Urunchimeg Erdene-Ochir (ADRA-Mongolia) and Anna White (Essential
Action, USA-DC) sport "Revoke the License to Kill" t-shirts
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/revokeltk.jpg

More WCTOH 2003 photos go to:
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/photos/wctoh2003/

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OUT OF OFFICE AUG 18 - SEPTEMBER 1
The GPTC staff will be out of the office the last two weeks of August.
We will respond to all correspondence upon our return in early
September. Stay tuned for new action campaigns, updates, and more!

Best wishes,
Anna

Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control
Essential Action
P.O. Box 19405
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: +1 202-387-8030
Fax: +1 202-234-5176
Email: tobacco@essential.org
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco