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UK: Cannabis warnings - by text message
Rebecca Oppenheim Health-news.co.uk
Monday 03 Mar 2003 The British Lung Foundation (BLF) is planning to use text messages to warn young people of the risks of smoking cannabis. Over the next two weeks it will send 30,000 texts to raise awareness that smoking cannabis can be just as harmful to lungs as tobacco. Dame Helena Shovelton, chief executive of the BLF, said, "The dangers of smoking cigarettes are well documented, and are reinforced with the recent implementation of the tobacco advertising ban, and No Smoking Day next week. Our message simply reiterates this - all smoking harms your lungs." The new campaign follows the publication of the cannabis report in November by the BLF. In the coming weeks, 5,000 young adults living in Brighton, London, Cardiff, Glasgow, Belfast and Norfolk will receive a text message, that says "do u think cannabis is as bad 4 ur lungs as tobacco?". Recipients will be asked to respond so that the BLF know how many people realise the dangers of smoking cannabis. Dame Helena said, "We had an overwhelming response to the launch of our cannabis report in November and people deserve to make an educated decision as to whether they smoke cannabis or not, just as they now do with tobacco. "We have heard of people as young as 30 waiting for lung transplants after heavy use of cannabis. My fear is we will have another generation of people with smoking-related lung disease, just as we had in the 1950s before the dangers of tobacco were widely known."
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