Medical working group smoking and health
| Medical Working Group Smoking and Health e. V. (ÄARG) |
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| purpose | Medical Association for Tobacco Prevention |
| Chair: | Friedrich Johann Wiebel, Deputy Susanne Bornschein, Deputy Reinhard G. Matschke |
| Establishment date: | 1969 |
| Seat : | Mannheim |
| Website: | www.aerztlicher-arbeitskreis.de |
The Medical Working Group on Smoking and Health e. V. (ÄARG) is an association of German doctors who volunteer to combat health hazards from smoking and passive smoking . In contrast, a support association, the “Working Group on Smoking and Health”, which is headed by the same board, is open to all professions.
organization
According to its statutes, the federal association and its support association are “free of political, religious and ideological ties”. The purpose is to provide specialist advice to federal and state governments on health policy. The federal chairman of the non-profit association is the pharmacologist and toxicologist Friedrich Johann Wiebel, who was awarded the Fritz Lickint Medal in 2010 for his work as national chairman . His deputies are Susanne Bornschein, specialist in psychiatry and psychotherapy, and Reinhard G. Matschke, ENT doctor and environmental medicine. Regional associations exist in Berlin-Brandenburg, Saxony, Hesse and Lower Saxony.
history
The working group was founded in 1969 at the University of Mainz on the initiative of Ferdinand Schmidt (1923-2006), professor in Heidelberg and doctor at the Mannheim Clinic. In 1992 the working group was among the initiators of the coalition against smoking , from which the non-smoking alliance (ABNR) was formed in 2003 , to which the working group is still a member.
Cross-border cooperation
Action partners are the German Cancer Research Center , the German Cancer Aid Foundation and the German Cancer Society . In international dialogue, the doctors' organization maintains contact with, among others, “The International Tobacco Control Network” (GLK), the WHO , the “Union for International Cancer Control” (UICC), the “World Conferences on Tobacco OR Health” (WCTOH) and the "European Network for Smoking and Tobacco Prevention" (ENSP).
Own goals
With its health policy demands, the ÄARG is counted among the so-called hardliners against smoking. Its objectives include: vigorous prevention and control of the health hazards caused by smoking and passive smoking, education and advice, especially for the protection of children and young people, and coordination of all efforts to prevent damage to health from smoking. On World No Tobacco Day in May 2020 with the motto “Don't let yourself be manipulated”, the Medical Working Group as a member of the Non-Smoking Action Alliance (ABNR) called for increased tobacco prevention by the federal government. An increase in tobacco tax and the introduction of a tax on e-cigarettes and tobacco heaters are urgently needed. In the current COVID-19 pandemic , "Smoking and possibly also vaping could increase the risk of a severe course of infection," warned Stefan Andreas, chief physician at the Immenhausen Lung Clinic and ABNR member.
The association also advocates a ban on advertising for cigarettes and has been involved in statements on the EU Tobacco Directive.
Another important area mentioned is advising politicians on all issues relating to the harms and disadvantages of smoking and passive smoking. The demands also include help for smokers willing to quit. The publicly stated goal is also: To influence the formation of political and public opinion in order to highlight the nuisance and health risks of smoking. The stated goals should also be achieved through participation in national and international health policy bodies as well as through media work and information events. The association supports the international goals of the World Health Organization .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Association statute (s) Mannheim Local Court
- ↑ The curriculum vitae of Friedrich Johann Wiebel
- ^ Fritz Lickint Medal for Friedrich Johann Wiebel
- ^ Board of Directors and regional associations
- ^ Association chronicle 1969–1979 , accessed July 10, 2020
- ↑ The Coalition Against Smoking on .abnr.de, accessed July 10, 2020
- ^ Official list of associations on specialist partnerships , query from June 10, 2016
- ↑ z. B. Smokers' war: Now the Wiesn guests are talking BILD Online from June 23, 2010
- ↑ Risk conflicts and the quarrel about smoking Karin Stiehr (2013) Springer, ISBN 366314559X , p. 61 ff.
- ↑ U. Laaser, G. Sassen, G. Murza, P. Sabo: Prevention and health education . Springer-Verlag 2013, ISBN 3642730965 , p. 558 f.
- ↑ https://www.krebshilfe.de/informieren/presse/pressemitteilungen/weltnichtrauchertag-lass-dich-nicht-manipernen/ , accessed on May 28, 2020
- ↑ No poster advertising for tobacco - is that enough? ( Memento from February 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Apothekenumschau Online from January 4, 2016
- ↑ Statements on the EU Tobacco Directive published on euractiv.de