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Tobacco and Public Health - TCSC Indonesia

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Thus, when the opportunity arose, they were ready <strong>and</strong> prepared to seize it.<br />

This is testament to strategic planning; putting the critical resources in place; keeping<br />

focused—<strong>and</strong> then, seizing the opportunity.<br />

Realistic hope<br />

MICHAEL PERTSCHUK 675<br />

Eric Fromm, the great social psychologist, wrote about ‘hope’ as ‘a decisive element in<br />

any effort to bring about social change’.<br />

But such hope, he added, is neither passive waiting … nor the disguise of phrase<br />

making <strong>and</strong> adventurism, of disregard for reality, <strong>and</strong> of forcing what cannot be<br />

forced’.<br />

True hope, wrote Fromm, ‘is like the crouched tiger, which will jump only when the<br />

moment for jumping has come’.<br />

That is, perhaps, the most profound lesson for tobacco control leaders in any<br />

country!

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