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Health Department (DHHS)
Tasmanian
Public & Environmental Health Service (PEHS).
DHHS - Organisational chart - see where PEHS fits
in.
"Our role is to monitor the health of the Tasmanian population, and put in
place programs to protect or promote health."
(New website; as at 17/11/2008 there is not even an air quality program).
The Tasmanian State Government
acknowledges this smoke can reduce the quality of the air we breathe, and
they also acknowledge the small particles can be inhaled deeply into the lungs.
They also want you to stay indoors where the air quality can be actually 3-5times worse
than it is outdoors
on a smoke free day. And they want you to do this all Autumn while forestry burns.
What they don't tell you is, that unless
the building is fitted with ABSOLUTE FILTERS, you are breathing the same smoky air as
outside, and possibly 3-5 times worse anyway. Buildings are rarely fitted with absolutes,
and they are almost never fitted to homes.
No wonder the following document was never headed or signed. It gives out misleading and
wrongful information under the circumstances.
Click to read the Tasmania Health Department's Answer to our deliberate
smoke problem.
Why is the Environment Minister handing out Health Department brochures?
Read the updated version
following discussions with PEHS in July 2008.
"Action should be taken by others where possible to minimise exposure
of the public to smoke. "
Forestry comes before Health and
the Environment in Tasmania!
According to the World Health Organisation
(WHO) “there is no safe level of fine particle pollution.”
If your doctor asks you, "have you
ever smoked", answer "yes".
Why isn't Tasmania's forestry smoke
included on the National Pollution Inventory (NPI) ?
And remember, you now qualify to take part in :-
"Why so many people have lung and heart
disease in Tasmania -
A future Government-funded research program."
Now read what the
Health Department (DHHS) has to say.
It's a bit different to what's at the top of this page.
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