Horst Herb wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 09:55, Cedric Meyerowitz wrote: >> Don't get me wrong. I agree with your thoughts on Public education, but it >> hasn't worked & won't work - unless you use the big stick. Educating kids >> at school about colds & Flu ? Won't work, as most kids if not all get >> hammered about how bad Alcohol, drugs & smoking is. Yet - not helped. > > Hasn't it? I had the impresssion that year by year less people were smoking, > and at least in our area less IVDU too
Yes, see the pages on smoking, risky alcohol use and cannabis use here: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/public-health/chorep/beh/beh_intro.htm Smoking is definitely going down in adults and in school kids too. Risky drink also on the decline, although less dramatically. Cannabis use by school kids definitely going down. Health promotion strategies (including taxation of unhealthy products, restrictions on advertising, sales and serving to minors, smoke-free areas, provision of quit and help services as well as school-based and public education and advertising campaigns) do work, but patience and persistence is necessary. We don't seem to have included any specific trends for IVDU - rather hard to measure such trends reliably, but they can be inferred very indirectly from other indicators. (which aren't shown in the report either). There is a concern that the popularity of amphetamines is driving IVDU up in some places, but not much data as yet. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
