About ACOSH

ACOSH aims to raise awareness in the community on issues relating to smoking and health and lobby governments in the fight against tobacco.

Campaigns

ACOSH reaches the public through community and health organisation and partnerships, and media exposure with regular press and radio campaigns including the newly designed smoke free website.

Services

ACOSH offers the public and government an independent authority on smoking control. ACOSH liaises with governments to initiate smoking control strategies and to enhance the effectiveness of existing strategies, and at the same time remains independent of government. As an autonomous body, it is effective both as a medical advisory council and as a pressure group.

Membership

Initial membership of ACOSH in Western Australia was from the Australian Medical Association, the Royal Australian Colleges of General Practitioners, Physicians, Pathologists and Surgeons, and other major medical bodies within the State. Later, members from other health and education organisations and allied professional associations were included. All the major medical specialities concerned with smoking and health--for example, respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, epidemiology, paediatrics and oncology--are represented on ACOSH by medical specialists who are eminent in their fields.