The Ligue contre le Cancer de la Loire must participate in the commissions planned by the municipality of Saint-Étienne to reflect on public policies on cancer. With various themes: addictions, physical activity, inequalities or even nutrition. “Health is also an interaction between an individual and the environment in which he lives, explains Fabienne Couvreur, director of the Loire committee of the League against Cancer, and I find that working with a community is a good scale. To be on a territory, since the community will ultimately be able to act on housing, on school canteens, on urban development, on transport. It is she who also has the power, to modify the living conditions in which we are.”
Among the proposals defended by the League against Cancer, Fabienne Couvreur defends “the creation of tobacco-free spaces, even outdoors. The idea is not to stigmatize smokers, it is rather to say, can’t we reverse the norm? And especially in relation to children, isn’t it interesting that when you are in a place like a park, the child can be in an environment that is not a smoking environment? The first concrete applications of the cancer plan of the city of Saint-Étienne are expected by the end of 2022.