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| ASH Urges Filming of Tykes Smoking |
| Source from:Tobacco Reporter 07/28/2010 |
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Indonesia has agreed to ratify the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), according to a story issued by PRLog, the free press release service, quoting ASH.
According to the story, Indonesia decided to ratify the FCTC after pictures and video reports appeared on the Internet purporting to show a two-year old Indonesian child addicted to smoking.
'Now pictures of similar smoking babies in other countries are also appearing on the Internet, and activists in these nations may use their similar shock value to pressure their own countries to likewise ratify the treaty or to take other effective action to protect children,' the story stated in a passage attributed to John Banzhaf, public interest law professor and executive director of ASH, who was said to be trying to kick start the movement.
The Chairman of Indonesia's National Commission For Child Protection was said to have stated that inaction in permitting such abuses to occur would not only be a violation of the children's human rights, but also 'tantamount to genocide'.
ASH is said to have contacted thousands of organizations and antismoking activists around the world, suggesting that they search the Internet for still and video images showing infants, toddlers, and other young children from their own countries smoking, and then help publicize these images to pressure their own countries into taking more effective action.
If such images from their country haven't already appeared on the Internet, Banzhaf suggests that antismoking activists search out similar dramatic examples from their own nation and post them on YouTube and other web sites.
"All it takes is an inexpensive video camera or even a cell phone to take a brief video of a tyke smoking," Banzhaf was quoted as saying. "Posting it on the Internet might have as much impact as the images of Ardi Suganda have had on the recalcitrant government of Indonesia." Enditem |
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