A tobacco -free space has been created, scheduled awareness and information interventions.
The municipality is league against smoking, the first preventable risk factor for cancers: the municipal council voted unanimously the process of labeing tobacco-free spaces which are part of the national program to combat smoking 2023-2027.
Tuesday, April 29, Joseph Silvestre, mayor, inaugurated a tobacco-free space in the presence of members of the municipal council, Michèle Calvel and Georges Delonca of the League against Cancer, Gérard Soler, mayor of Corbère-les-Cabanes and Monique Surjus, his assistant, at the elementary school in Corbère.
Awareness and empowerment
In addition, the members of the League against Cancer organize explo-tabac workshops, focused on the discovery of the composition of cigarettes and its dangers, on the impact on the environment, pollution, deforestation, on that of the health of tobaccoologists, as well as a round table on “the guilty or non-guilty smoker”. “The interest lies in the discussion we have with the children in view of their parents. They are very concerned about the way they can encourage them to quit smoking”, said Michèle Calvel, volunteer at the league against cancer and former caregiver. The league intervenes in the classes of CM1 and CM2 so as to experience them before entering the 6th grade, because it is not uncommon to note that the smoking affects children from the age of 11. “We have recently been in contact with a 7 -year -old child, already a smoker, because initiated in cigarettes by his parents”said Michèle Calvel. Georges Delonca, retired general practitioner and assistant treasurer in the league against cancer, commented: “45,000 people die each year because of cancer (lungs, bladder, colon, aerodigestive routes) in connection with tobacco consumption and 1,000 people because of passive tobacco”.
Measures that win public membership.
