Comments on: Mission Australia under fire for tobacco links http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/mission-australia-under-fire-for-tobacco-links/ now with extra source Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:53:56 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Marg http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/mission-australia-under-fire-for-tobacco-links/#comment-2216 Marg Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2216 Some years ago, there was a bit of a push for Australian public health advocates to adopt the US approach of marginalising the tobacco industry in a bid to thwart the industry's unshakeable attempts at corporate respectability. (This is something that the public may not care two figs about, but it makes a difference to the poli's.) Perhaps it might not be possible for the Preventative Health Task Force to be exactly up-front about developing a strategy to discredit and marginaise what we are continually told is a 'legal industry', but the fact is that the 'drug pusher' label has never stuck in a big way, and the industry has not been demonised in Australia the way it has been in the US. Can we please come up with some effective stuff to put the industry on the ropes so that charities, universities, and anyone else who needs support wouldn't dream of taking the industry's dirty money? Some years ago, there was a bit of a push for Australian public health advocates to adopt the US approach of marginalising the tobacco industry in a bid to thwart the industry’s unshakeable attempts at corporate respectability. (This is something that the public may not care two figs about, but it makes a difference to the poli’s.) Perhaps it might not be possible for the Preventative Health Task Force to be exactly up-front about developing a strategy to discredit and marginaise what we are continually told is a ‘legal industry’, but the fact is that the ‘drug pusher’ label has never stuck in a big way, and the industry has not been demonised in Australia the way it has been in the US. Can we please come up with some effective stuff to put the industry on the ropes so that charities, universities, and anyone else who needs support wouldn’t dream of taking the industry’s dirty money?

]]> By: kate http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/mission-australia-under-fire-for-tobacco-links/#comment-2217 kate Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2217 Wonderful. Under the guise of charity & good works, Mission Australia now poisons both the bodies bodies (with fags) and minds (with religion) of vulnerable young people.<br /><br />It's foul that either is acceptable, or that such "charity" is necessary in a civilised society.<br /><br /> Wonderful. Under the guise of charity & good works, Mission Australia now poisons both the bodies bodies (with fags) and minds (with religion) of vulnerable young people.

It’s foul that either is acceptable, or that such “charity” is necessary in a civilised society.

]]> By: steve martin http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/27/mission-australia-under-fire-for-tobacco-links/#comment-2218 steve martin Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-2218 BATA is to be commended for it's charity to Mission Australia, it has saved the Mission from the expense buying the necessary ashtrays. <br />Oil companies are similarly to be commended for public spirited actions on climate change, and the environment; who can forget Exxon's hard work in Alaska. BATA is to be commended for it’s charity to Mission Australia, it has saved the Mission from the expense buying the necessary ashtrays.
Oil companies are similarly to be commended for public spirited actions on climate change, and the environment; who can forget Exxon’s hard work in Alaska.

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