Heather Crowe
Heather Crowe (born April 23, 1945 in Yarmouth , Nova Scotia , † May 22, 2006 in Ottawa , Ontario ) was a Canadian waitress whose intensive educational work against passive smoking in the workplace led to changes in the law in the Canadian provinces of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut . She became a public figure and accepted that a portrait of her face was used in the fight against secondhand smoke.
Life
Crowe was born in Nova Scotia and her mother was a Mi'kmaq . At a lecture in Nunavut in 2003, she said to the legislative assembly and elders that she grew up in the Mi'kmaq tradition and now speaks as an elder.
She had never smoked in her life, but in 2002, after 40 years as a waitress, she was diagnosed with lung cancer. She became famous in Ontario in October 2002 when she received hospitality compensation for her illness from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. It was the first time in Canada that passive smoking was recognized as an occupational disease in the hospitality industry.
Combating secondhand smoke in the workplace
When Crowe was back to work at the restaurant after the diagnosis, a guest asked her how she was doing. When she told him about the diagnosis, he asked if she was ready to appear on TV. She agreed directly. The guest was an Assistant Secretary of Health Canada responsible for the government's tobacco control program. Dawe Hachey, former Acting Director General of Health Canada (Tobacco Control Program), said of Crowe:
"What Heather did was allow us to put a face on the hundreds of Canadians who die every year from exposure to secondhand smoke.
What Heather did: she allowed us to put a face to the hundreds of Canadians who die every year from being exposed to secondhand smoke. "
Her fight against passively inhaled tobacco smoke took her across Canada to all provinces and territories except Prince Edward Island and the Yukon . One of her first trips was to Iqaluit , the capital of Nunavut , in March 2003 .
success
As early as September 2005, there were laws to protect against secondhand smoke in Nunavut, the Northwest Territories, New Brunswick and Manitoba . Ontario and Québec followed in May 2006. Nova Scotia later followed, and corresponding laws were also enacted in the other provinces.
honors and awards
A newly established park in western Ottawa is named after Heather Crowe.
- World Health Organization for public service
- Meritorious Service Decoration from former Governor General Adrienne Clarkson for activities that brought honor to the community
literature
- Sharon Anne Cook: Sex, Lies, and Cigarettes: Canadian Women, Smoking, and Visual Culture. 1880-2000. McGill-Queen's University Press; 2012, ISBN 978-0-7735-3977-8
Individual evidence
- ^ 'Matriarch' of anti-smoking movement dies at 61. In: The Globe and Mail . May 23, 2006, accessed June 12, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Heather Crowe obituary
- ↑ Anti-tobacco program [1]
- ↑ Travel archive link ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Success archive link ( memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Second souffle pour le parc Heather-Crowe. In: radio-canada.ca. June 1, 2016, accessed June 14, 2016 (French).
- ↑ WHO award [2]
- ↑ Meritorious Service Decoration [3]
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Crowe, Heather |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian waitress engaged in non-smoking protection |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yarmouth , Nova Scotia |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 22, 2006 |
| Place of death | Ottawa , Ontario |