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No smokers during the WM in the stadium
发表者 : Admin 在 2006年 5月 09日, 星期二 - 09:51 AM

An initiative of UICC Global Smokefree Partnership

German football stars announce Football World Cup 2006 should be smokefree

Geneva. World-class footballers Gerald Asamoah and Ebbe Sand want to kick tobacco out of the 2006 World Cup.

The two teammates, who play for Schalke 04 � popularly known in Germany as the 揜oyal Blues� � are getting behind the Smokefree Football World Cup 2006 campaign.

With just over a month to go to the kick-off in Berlin on June 9, it is not too late for the F閐閞ation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) and the national organising committee to declare the Cup smokefree, they say.

揥e are world class � the world class is smokefree,� says Gerald Asamoah. 揟hat抯 why we need smokefree stadiums at the World Cup.�

Ebbe Sand agrees. 揥e should have smokefree stadiums because our guests expect that.�

The smokefree campaign was launched because health organizations realized that although the last World Cup was free from tobacco smoke and the next World Cup will be too, smoking will be allowed in this year抯 competition in stadiums across Germany.

Michael Bamberg, the president of the German Cancer Society, welcomes the stand taken by Asamoah and Sand. 揟hey demonstrate a high degree of social responsibility and prove themselves role models for young people in the best sense,� he says.

揥e hope other footballers and celebrities will follow their example and speak up for a smokefree World Cup�.

The Smokefree Football World Cup 2006 campaign is the brainchild of a Global Smokefree partnership led by the International Union Against Cancer (UICC), a Geneva-based federation of national cancer societies, cancer research institutes and other bodies.

揙nly 100% smokefree policies can protect lives and promote health,� says Isabel Mortara, UICC抯 executive director.

揂s the world prepares for the largest sporting event in the world, let抯 make sure that fans around the globe will witness a celebration of sport, life and health. Tobacco has no place in this picture.�

Countdown campaign for a smokefree World Cup 2006: Will Germany remain offside?

The UICC Global Smokefree Partnership � an alliance of leading health organisations world wide � today issued an urgent call to FIFA to make the World Cup 2006 smoke-free. The campaign is backed by over 170 organisations and alliances worldwide.

At the opening press conference of the annual congress of the German Lung Foundation and the German Association for Pneumology (Nuremberg, Germany), over 170 health organizations from around the world called for a smokefree World Cup 2006.

They demanded reinstatement of a memorandum of cooperation signed by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the FIFA prior to the 2002 World Cup that stated: �WHO and FIFA agree that tobacco and sports do not mix and that tobacco in any form must be removed from all football events associated with FIFA � This Memorandum ... will serve as the starting point of future cooperation on other FIFA events.�

Professor Gerhard Sybrecht, member of the board of directors and deputy chairman of the German Lung Foundation commented: �Tobacco and sports don抰 mix � that should also hold true for Germany. Yet images of smoking will be exported from Germany into billions of homes and onto countless big screens around the globe. In Japan and South Korea, the tobacco-free FIFA World Cup 2002 was very well received. At the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa, the stadiums will also be smoke-free. It would simply be a shame if Germany were to be the only one offside.�

Dr Yussuf Saloojee, Chair of the UICC Global Smokefree Partnership and director of the South African National Council against Smoking stated: �The World Cup is a wonderful sporting event, followed avidly by fans of all ages, sexes and nationalities. The images they see should celebrate health, fitness and fair play � not addiction and death.�

Dr Annette Bornh鋟ser, who organized the campaign on behalf of the UICC Global Smokefree Partnership added: 慣he voluntary measures are met with disapproval throughout the world. While the spectators will be asked to refrain from smoking in the stadiums, FIFA-licensed lighters will be on sale. It makes no sense. The eyes of the world are on Germany and the organizers now to act on this.�

Contacts:

Annette Bornh鋟ser (Germany):	+49 (0)176 400 57 177
Sin閍d Jones (UICC):	+ 44 (0)7789 861 870

For more information, contact Sin閍d Jones (info@globalsmokefreepartnership.org)

written by Sin閍d Jones from UICC Global Smokefree Partnership



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