The theme for the WNTD in 1991 was Public places and transport: better be tobacco free.
Philippe Boucher (then newly appointed Executive Director of the French
National Committe for Tobacco Control) recalls the visit of a flight
attendant from Air Canada. She explained to the French media -with her
wonderful accent from Québec- why Air Canada had decided to go
smoke-free and why it was important for all the other ailrines to do
the same. He also talks about the campaign that was organized with all
the service stations of the oil company Elf-Aquitaine to inform car
drivers about the health risks for kids when they were smoked out in
cars. A story of out of court settlement (one of the first in France)
and of recycling campaign material from another country (in that case
the US). LISTEN
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Here is a cartoon that was created at the same period by the late Jean-Claude Marol to promote smoke free airlines. The caption says: "I am an air flight attendant not a smoke flight attendant. Thank you!"
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