The largest ever world wide study has dug its heels into the tobacco crisis. According to the international survey , nearly half of all men and 1 in 10 women use tobacco in many developing countries.
In 2008, India banned smoking in public places. However, very little has been done to implement these directives. According to the survey, done by the Buffalo School of Public Health, India’s anti-tobacco drive is extremely ineffective. The survey covered over three billion people across 16 countries.
To back up this proclamation, the study goes on to show that India has among the slowest tobacco-quit rations in the world. Very few smokers or smokeless tobacco consumers have kicked the habit in the last four years. An estimated 10 lakh Indians lose their life every year due to disease
Its lead author Gary Giovino has pointed out that 100 million lives were lost prematurely due to tobacco use in the last century. “In the absence of effective actions, about one billion people worldwide will die prematurely in the next century from tobacco use,” Giovino has been quoted as saying. Worse, most of these deaths will come in lower and middle-income countries.
While quit rates are high in countries like the USA and UK, they are abysmally low in countries like India and China which is home to a combined total of 575 million smokers.
The study concluded that the tobacco industry’s promotion of its products through subtle surrogate advertising is more effective that the anti-tobacco ones put forward by governments. “Our data reflect industry efforts to promote tobacco use,” said the study. “These include marketing and mass media campaigns by companies that make smoking seem glamorous, especially for women. The industry’s marketing efforts also equate tobacco use with Western themes, such as freedom and gender equality.”
I consider ainhtnyg other than menthol to be non-essential, but I’m not (yet?) into the whole vaping culture thing. I suspect it’ll be like how I was with flavored tobacco and cloves when I smoked analog cigs. I purchased maybe one pack of gloves a year and I would go to a hookah bar maybe three times a year. +6Was this answer helpful?
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The title of this post is misleading, though it is true that women consuming tobacco are raising in India. It’s sad to see this thing is growing at such a rate in a country like India.
Will it make any change? does it really matter, if less people die by not consuming tobacco ! or it is the other way round…….., can’t we think that this is one of the ways to control the population explotion in India ?
How can indian gvernment Take acton againest tobacco use .Its the Manafactures who constantly Pump cash into Pockets of Ministers and IAS officers,How then inian Finance minister diluted the fine imposed on ITC,by highest court in india.lot of Ms have a stack in Tobaco compeny Shares,
I own a dog grooming buiesnss. I HAVE to be discriminating or I will go broke in short order. A blanket price means that folks with little dogs that require virtually nothing, would have to pay an excessive amount of money while folks with extremely large dogs who require a great deal of time and energy would pay not nearly enough. Doesn’t seem fair now, does it?Every health care reform we’ve ever had has failed to bring down the cost. Why? Because they’re treating the symptoms and not the cause.Take the last great attempt for instance. Proposed by first lady Hillary Rodham-Clinton (now Sec. of State), she demonized doctors as being a bunch of good ol’ boys who scratch one an-others backs, ordering tests that are un necessary and expensive drugs. She stripped them of the health care decision making process and instead, turned it over to the for profit insurance companies believing THIS would drive down the cost of health care. Suddenly, you weren’t allowed to see the same doctor and what the doctor thought was appropriate and necessary was not allowed (covered) by the insurance companies. Folks like my father ultimately died of cancer that went undiagnosed because the all knowing insurance company wouldn’t approve the necessary tests.People forget that insurance companies are in the buiesnss of making money and that they employ hundreds of thousands. Forcing a company to write a policy that is a guaranteed money loser will have far reaching effects sort of like Bill Clinton’s forcing banks to make loans to people they KNEW could not repay. Created the whole housing bubble, financial melt down and massive foreclosure set up that we are now dealing with. Brilliant.So, why wait to implement? Because this thing is a guaranteed money loser. Let’s look at the basic numbers put out by the non-partisan CBO:You’re going to see tax increases over the next 10 years to raise the projected cost ($ 500,000,000,000,000)You’re going to have to strip the retired military and grandma and grandpa of their Medicare. Cuts over the next 10 years to save an additional $ 523,000,000,000,000.All, so that you can provide coverage for the approximately 13% who cannot afford it out of pocket. Trouble is, while you pay for 10 years, they are only getting 6 years worth of coverage. Pay for 10, get 6. Anyone curious (like I am) about what happens at the end of that 6 years? Will we be required to pay another 10 years so the losers can get another 6 years? Sounds like a sure fire recipe for bankruptcy to me!As much as I’d love to tell you that the cause is poor education (slightly more than 15% will not graduate from high school). That without a college degree, the best people can hope for is a job that pays little more than minimum wage increase the education standards and levels so that people graduate with a marketable skill. The ugly truth of the matter is that regardless of educational opportunities (we already provide Free K-12 and reduced tuition for anything above and beyond), there will always and forever be a certain subculture of society that will refuse to listen and learn. They will make bad life decisions and will always be under served, under represented and a drain on society. People NEED to make some seriously hard decisions.