Asthma
What is going on?
Funding Deals?
Why won't the Asthma Foundation Tasmania stand up for asthmatics and lobby to
bring about an immediate end to
forestry smoke that has been affecting the health of so many Tasmanians for so long now?
Children
are particularly vulnerable to wood smoke, because their respiratory systems are still
developing,
and because they have higher rates of activity and inhale more air, Health Canada says.
27.4.2008 - Mercury Asthma Group bites tongue
Balance Sheet ending 2007 Asthma Foundation Tasmania
The Asthma Foundation Tasmania uses public relations consultants Beyond PR, Davey Street,
Hobart.
http://www.davidbartlett.com.au/diary/event.2005-11-18.0888792591
28.4.2008 - Letter to Asthma Foundation Tasmania
Tasmanian Times Asthma Foundation and Premier
6.5.2008 - Reply from Asthma Foundation Tasmania
6.5.2008 - Letter to Asthma Foundation Tasmania
18.5.2008 - e-mail from Asthma Foundation CEO No deal
25.5.2008 - Sunday Tasmanian AFT still won't support a ban on forestry smoke for asthmatics. Why not??
26.5,2008 & 2.6.2008 e-mail to President of Asthma Foundation
5.6.2008 - email from President Asthma Foundation. Note:
People with asthma are not party to these 'secret' discussions.
Just Government bodies, or Government funded bodies. Hmmmm...
12.6.2008 - Forestry smoke feeds Asthma Foundation Children suffer.
26.11.2008 - Forestry Tasmania suggests I invest in an
air purifier device (so they can keep making smoke).
This is what the American Lung Association has to say...
OZONE PRODUCTION: Some air
cleaners (called ozone generators) use an electrical charge to generate ozone. Although
ozone (also referred to as trivalent oxygen or saturated oxygen) is a necessary part of
the upper atmosphere (10-30 miles above us), in the part of the atmosphere we breathe,
ozone is a potent lung irritant. It can have damaging health effects, especially for
persons with asthma and other lung diseases, children and the elderly. It is produced
directly by ozone generators and indirectly by ion generators and some other electronic
air cleaners. The FDA has set a limit of 0.05 parts per million of ozone in indoor air.
Ask whether any electronic air cleaner you are considering buying has been tested for
ozone production. The American Lung Association suggests
that ozone generators not be used.
27.11.2008 - Emails to, and replies from, Asthma Foundation Tasmania Still not standing up for asthmatics in Tasmania.
It can be seen the Asthma Foundation Tasmania is at odds with
the World Health Organisation (WHO).
WHO claims, “there is no safe level of fine particle pollution.”
It seems the Asthma Foundation has a different agenda for asthmatics in Tasmania.