Health continues to go up in smoke

Smoking related hospital admissions have increased despite a fall in the number of smokers, new research reveals.

More than 1.6 million people were admitted to hospital due to smoking, with cancer accounting for more than one in ten (11 per cent) of these.

The statistics, released by the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)1, also reveal the number of young adults smoking (23 per cent) is higher than the number of adults who smoke (20 per cent).

Smoking can cause a variety of oral health problems including tooth staining, dental plaque, bad breath, tooth loss and gum disease. Of more concern is the significant risk of developing life-threatening diseases such as lung disease and mouth cancer.

Mouth cancer now affects more than 6,500 people in the UK2 – that’s 18 people diagnosed with the disease every day. With five year survival rates reliant upon early detection, Chief Executive of the British Dental Health Foundation, Dr Nigel Carter OBE, voiced his concerns over the increase in smoking-related hospital admissions. Classic cigarettes.

Dr Carter said: “We have seen mouth cancer rates soar over the past 10 years by almost 50 per cent, and an increase in hospital admissions due to smoking shows this upward trend may continue for some time.

“Smoking and tobacco use is the leading cause of mouth cancer. Even though it is encouraging the see the number of smokers falling, one in five people is still a high percentage. To curb rising mouth cancer figures, this needs to improve. Mouth Cancer Action Month, which takes place throughout November, is a good time for people to get on the road to kicking the habit. We know around two in three smokers actually want to quit, and the campaign offers a perfect opportunity to do this.

“We must not forget if you smoke and drink alcohol to excess you are up to 30 times more likely to develop the disease, so it is crucial we continue to educate the public about all of the risks. A poor diet and the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) are also risk factors for mouth cancer.

“As a result it is really important that everyone knows the warning signs for mouth cancer. They include ulcers which do not heal within three weeks, red and white patches in the mouth and unusual lumps or swellings in the mouth. Our message to everyone is simple – ‘If in doubt, get checked out’.”

Drug addicts 'can quit smoking' with additional therapy

New research from the National Institute of Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health, suggests that people who are addicted to cocaine or methamphetamine are able to quit cigarette smoking while being treated for their substance addictions, and that quitting will not hinder their treatment.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cigarette smoking causes 1 in 5 deaths in the US every year. But the researchers say the highest death rate from smoking tobacco occurs in patients receiving treatment for substance abuse.
Figures from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) reveal that in 2008, 63% of people who had a substance abuse disorder in the past year reported current tobacco use, while tobacco use in the general population stood at 28%.
But the researchers note that the majority of programs treating substance abuse do not look at helping patients quit smoking as part of their treatment.Davidoff cigarettes.

Introduction of smoking cessation therapy

With this in mind, the researchers conducted a study in which patients being treated for cocaine and methamphetamine addiction were randomly assigned to treatment aimed at helping them stop smoking (smoking cessation therapy).
Their treatment involved weekly counseling sessions for a period of 10 weeks, during which time the patients received bupropion extended-release medication - a form of antidepressant.
From weeks 4 to 10, participants received nicotine inhalers alongside contingency management - a strategy that awarded prizes to subjects with the aim of encouraging them to stop smoking.
All participants underwent drug and carbon monoxide testing to measure the levels of these substances in their bodies during the 10-week study, and at a 3- and 6-month follow-up. They were also required to self-report their outcomes.

'Beneficial' for substance abuse patients

Results of the study, published in The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, revealed that patients who underwent smoking cessation therapy showed high smoking quit rates during substance abuse therapy and during the 3- and 6-month follow-up.
Furthermore, the researchers report that smoking cessation therapy did not interfere with patients' participation in substance abuse treatment.
Commenting on the findings, Dr. Nora D. Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA), says:

 

FDA analysis of cigarette warnings 'inadequate'

Canadian researchers claim that graphic images and warning labels on cigarette packaging do reduce smoking, suggesting the FDA has underestimated their significance.
The saying, "a picture is worth a thousand words" may sound like an advertising executive's mantra, but we often fall for the dream when sleek and glossy images allow us a glimpse of the "perfect world." But does the theory work in reverse?
A report, published in Tobacco Control, shows that when graphic warning labels were printed on cigarette packaging in Canada, smoking rates decreased between 12% and 20%.
The study authors say this challenges the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) June 2011 findings, claiming the analysis was "flawed."Continent cigarettes.
In August 2012, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit found that the FDA analysis "essentially concedes the agency lacks any evidence that the graphic warnings are likely to reduce smoking rates."
The researchers claim that the FDA significantly underestimated the impact of the warning labels and suggest that their use in the US could potentially lead to a decrease of between 5.3 and 8.6 million smokers. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Waterloo and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research in Canada used statistical methods to compare smoking rates in Canada 9 years before and 9 years after the introduction of graphic warning labels.
Canada was the first country in the world to introduce these labels and therefore has more statistical data for measuring their impact than any other country.
In addition, Canada's labeling policy is closer to that of the FDA, meaning it is easier to extrapolate the findings from Canada to the US, especially when coupled with the facts that Canada is culturally and geographically similar.
The researchers claim that smoking rates in Canada fell sharply after graphic warnings were introduced, and they say this was greater than the difference in smoking rates in the US, where there was no change in printed warnings for same time period.
The potential reduction in smoking rates in the US is between 33 and 53 times greater than the FDA's estimate, they say.
Dr. Jidong Huang, lead author of the paper, comments:
"These findings are important for the ongoing initiative to introduce graphic warnings in the US. The original proposal by the FDA was successfully challenged by the tobacco industry, and the court cited the very low estimated impact on smoking rates as a factor in its judgment."

How cigarette packet warnings affect children

Graphic images don’t deter young smokers,” says BBC News, reporting that picture warnings depicting the dangers of smoking have little impact on underage smokers.
While the headline correctly reflects the latest findings, it presents a negative spin of research that found that the warnings appeared effective for those who’d never smoked and those who’d “experimented” with smoking.
Researchers surveyed children aged 11-16 in 2008 (when warnings on cigarette packets were text only) and a separate repeat sample in 2011 (after graphic images had been introduced).
Between 2008 and 2011, the proportion of children who noticed health warnings, looked closely at them and understood them did not change much. However, in 2011 recall of the three health warnings associated with the pictures increased. The proportion of all children who thought about health warnings often, and the proportions who thought the images could put them off smoking or make them less likely to smoke also increased.
However, these positive effects seemed to be limited to never smokers or experimental smokers, with no difference in regular smokers as suggested by the headlines. An increased proportion of regular smokers reported hiding the pack to “escape” the health image.
This research suggests how changes in cigarette packaging may impact on the thoughts and perceptions of UK children. But while there are both positive and negative findings, the research can’t tell us whether the changes have made any difference to the numbers of children starting or quitting smoking.

Where did the story come from?

The study was carried out by researchers from the Centre for Tobacco Control Research at the University of Stirling and was funded by Cancer Research UK. The study was published in the peer-reviewed journal, Tobacco Control.
The news coverage of this study is generally representative, but has put a negative spin on the findings, ignoring the signs of some positive effects of the new images on cigarette packs.

What kind of research was this?

This was a repeat cross-sectional survey examining young people’s thoughts and understanding of the warnings on cigarette packets in 2008 and 2011.
Many countries now have pictorial warnings on the dangers of smoking on cigarette packs, and a few countries, including Canada and Australia, have these warnings covering three-quarters of the pack surface.
However, the European Union (EU) has set lower standards. EU law requires the written warnings that are required on cigarette packs to be one of two general warnings covering 30-35% of the pack front, and one of 14 specific warnings covering 40-50% of the reverse. In 2005, The European Commission also adopted 42 images that could be included on the back of packs. However, few member states have adopted them, and none have used warning images that cover at least half of the pack surface.
The current study has examined the impact of warnings upon children before and after the introduction of pictorial warnings to packs in the UK. In 2008, textual warnings appeared on 43% of the front and 53% of the back of the pack. In 2011, the warnings were the same, except that images supported the warning on the back of the pack.

Kobayashi apologises for smoking

Kamui Kobayashi has apologised after photographs emerged of him smoking a cigarette.

The former Toyota and Sauber driver, who is hoping to return to the grid, now races GT sports cars for Ferrari.
But his bid to return to the F1 grid was dealt a blow when the popular Japanese gossip magazine 'Friday' published photos of him walking on a street at night with an unidentified beauty and a cigarette.
Kobayashi, 27, admitted that his behaviour was "inappropriate for a sportsman".
"I sincerely apologise to those who gave me your support and all of my fans who were concerned," he is quoted as saying.
Kobayashi admitted that smoking was "a very thoughtless act" for someone "working towards returning to F1".
"I guarantee that this situation will not happen again," he promised.

Fighting against smoking tightened in Turkey

According to a new bill worked out by Turkey's Health Ministry, the fight against smoking will be even tighter, Sabah newspaper reported.
According to the new bill, smoking will be prohibited in children's parks and in the yards of mosques and hospitals.
The new bill also envisages a ban on the sale of cigarettes at a distance of 100 metres from schools and mosques, as well as the allocation of special smoking areas in open premises of cafe and restaurants and a ban on smoking at the entrance of shopping centres.

Candy-flavoured tobacco products enticing Canadian students to take up smoking, survey says

More than half of Canadian high school students say they’ve tried smoking flavoured tobacco products within the past month, new nationwide data suggests.
The Canadian Cancer Society and provincial organizations across the country are calling on health officials to ban these products for young smokers that come in bright packaging and flavours such as watermelon, chocolate or strawberry.

In the past 30 days, 52 per cent of high schoolers from grade 9 to grade 12 tried these products. That’s about 169,300 teens.
“There’s a series of flavoured tobacco products that are widely available and popular among youth and that are a big concern to us,” Rob Cunningham, a senior policy analyst with the Canadian Cancer Society, told Global News.
“These flavours can lead to kids becoming addicted. We need to do everything we can to reduce underage tobacco use,” he said.

They’re products like water pipe tobacco, smokeless tobacco, and menthol cigarettes. Right now, federal laws ban flavoured cigarettes except for menthol and blunt wraps and cigarillos, which are cigars weighing 1.4 grams or less. But tobacco companies have managed to find a loophole with cigarillos – instead, they produce flavoured cigars that are 1.5 grams or so.
“Menthol soothes the throat and reduces the harshness of cigarette smoke for youth who are experimenting,” Cunningham said.
Point the products out to adults and they won’t recognize them, he suggested. But kids are familiar with the flavoured tobacco products, which are readily available in convenience stores.
Some 32 per cent of teens tried menthol cigarettes in the past month – that product makes up only four per cent of cigarettes smoked.
This data from the Youth Smoking Survey revealed that 14 per cent of high school students smoked cigarettes in the past 30 days, 20 per cent had used a tobacco product and 10 per cent used a flavoured product in the past month.
The rates are within the same range across Canada – it was the highest in Quebec with 59 per cent of high schoolers trying flavoured tobacco in the past month and lowest in Ontario at 46 per cent.
Jurisdictions across the country released their individual provincial rates Monday.
Cunningham said he hopes health officials will follow in the footsteps of other jurisdictions that have banned these products.
In New York City, all flavoured tobacco products are banned outright, except for menthol. It’s the same in Rhode Island, he said.
Meanwhile the European Union is working on banning menthol-flavoured tobacco products.

State Officials Look to Curb Underage Smoking

According to a new report, 90 percent of smokers started the habit before they turned 18. A new Nevada law targets underage tobacco users.
It's against the law in Nevada for anyone under 18 to buy a tobacco product, but it's not against the law for minors to use tobacco products.
In June, Governor Brian Sandoval signed Senate Bill 177 into law. The law grants county commissions in Nevada authority to adopt ordinances that prohibit minors from using tobacco products.
The law also gives county commissioners authority to determine penalties for violators of the law. Clark County officials say they decided not to pursue penalties, because they didn't want to put kids in the justice system for smoking.
The only enforcement in place in Clark County falls the under Clark County School District. CCSD bans smoking anywhere on campus. It doesn't matter if you are in a student's car, at the football or baseball field or even in the bathroom.
The first offense is a warning. Students are searched, tobacco items are taken and the student is written up. Chaparral High School Principal David Wilson described the procedure following a second violation.
"The second time we have an issue, we're going to follow the same procedures except the parent will be called in to have a conversation with the student with an understanding that the consequences will be significantly more severe if the student continues with those behaviors," he said.
Wilson says a student would face suspension for the third offense. With so many other threats facing schools these days (i.e., drugs, gangs, bullies), Wilson admits educators don't actively hunt for smokers.
So, students should take personal responsibility and heed the warnings about the effects of nicotine and tar.
One popular alternative is electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes. A growing number of minors are finding ways to buy e-cigarettes.
Pink Spot Vapors owner Penn Elletson says he prohibits minors from buying e-cigarettes at his store. Still, he says business is booming. One year ago, Elletson said he had five employees and one location. Today, he has 50 employees between two stores.
"It addresses the triggers of smoking. It's the patch, the gum, all the other things that give you nicotine, which is the only thing your body craves in a cigarette, but it also gives you the hand in mouth oral fixation, the vapor production, the throat hit, all the triggers that go along with smoking," he said.
An electronic cigarette includes four pieces: a container, a lithium ion battery, a flavored vapor and a mouth piece. Some e-cigarettes release nicotine, while others release flavored vapors. The user can control the output level.
Because the CDC shows underage smokers are increasingly using the devices, 40 attorneys general - including Nevada Attorney General Catherine Cortez-Masto - are urging the federal government to regulate e-cigarettes.
The FDA currently lacks regulatory authority over e-cigarettes unless the products claim to offer therapeutic benefits.

Two-thirds of kids know cigarette brands in developing nations

More than two-thirds of young children in developing nations could identify at least one cigarette brand logo, according to a U.S. study that examined the reach of tobacco marketing to five and six year olds in countries where adult smoking rates are the highest.

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health worked one-on-one with five and six year olds in Brazil, China, India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Russia, asking them to match pictures of different products with their corresponding cigarette logos. In China, where roughly 71 percent of households with participating children had a tobacco user, 86 percent of children could identify at least one cigarette brand logo, the researchers reported in the journal Pediatrics.
Pakistan had the second highest percentage, with 84 percent of children capable of identifying at least one cigarette brand logo. Russia ranked last on the list with half of the participants able to identify any of the cigarette brand logos.
“(What surprised us most was) that children who were so young, five and six years old, were so familiar with tobacco logos,” Dina Borzekowski, lead author of the study and research professor in the University of Maryland, told Xinhua.
She said that even in households without smokers children could identify tobacco logos. This is because “not only do children see logos in their homes, the neighborhood stores where the children visit have very prominent tobacco advertisements,” Borzekowski said.
With five- and six-year-old children aware of domestic and international tobacco brands, there is a need to enforce stronger regulations for tobacco advertising,the researchers said.
Borzekowski and colleagues suggested changes including requiring larger graphic warning labels on cigarette packages. Additionally, they urged changes to limit children’s exposure to the point of sale of tobacco products, including establishing minimum distances between these retailers and places frequented by young children.
“We know that children who are more aware of smoking have more positive attitudes about smoking and are more likely to smoke,” Borzekowski said.
“If we want to reduce smoking, especially among young people, we need to lessen the prominence of tobacco brands in children’s lives. Better enforcement of existing laws should happen,” she added.

The Bulgarian Socialist Party will propose an amendment to the Health Act to allow smoking in stadiums and designated areas in airports.

The draft amendment has been signed by 8 Socialist deputies, reports dnevnik.bg.

If passed, the restrictions would also fall for night clubs, restaurants, cafes, bars, and casinos, provided they can designate special smoking areas.

The full smoking ban was introduced in June 2012 by the GERB government of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov.

Spas Panchev, Deputy Chair of the parliamentary group of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, said last week that the full smoking ban in enclosed public places must be dropped before winter.

This sparked controversy and wide public debates on the issue. President Rosen Plevneliev threatened to veto the amendments if they are passed in Parliament.

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Smoking in prisons: a human right or luxury health hazard?

A DECISION to ban smoking in jails across England and Wales has been described as a breach of human rights amid fears that it could spark riots.
Currently, inmates are allowed to smoke in their own cells and in some prison exercise yards but a total ban on smoking will be trialled in the south west next spring followed by a roll-out across all jails.
Richard Ford, home correspondent for The Times, warns that the ban could spark riots. "It has the potential to destabilise prisons, where being able to enjoy a cigarette helps prisoners through the boredom of their sentences," he says. "About 80 per cent of the 84,300 inmates smoke and tobacco is a valuable currency that is traded on the wings."
The rule change comes amid fears that the Prison Service could face compensation claims from prison officers who say they are victims of passive smoking.
Steve Gillan, general secretary of the Prison Officers' Association, has welcomed the move to have smoke-free prisons for his members but admits that introducing the ban will be difficult. "There is no pretending otherwise.
It could cause disturbances," he says. But he points out that it has been successful in Canada and in young offender institutions in England and Wales.
Andrew Neilson, from campaign charity The Howard League for Penal Reform, thinks a ban would be difficult to enforce when prisons are already going through "unprecedented" cuts to their budgets and staff resources.
"There may well be good intentions behind this policy proposal," he told BBC News. "But it will undoubtedly put a lot of pressure on jails which are already pretty stretched."
He added that there could be a short-term damaging effect on the mental health of prisoners "who are often very distressed".
On Radio 4's Today programme, John Humphrys said it could be a "brilliant" plan. "The idea that you can't smoke if you're a heavy smoker - that's a real deterrent to doing something that will land you in jail isn't it?"
But his guests disagreed. Ben Gunn, who spent 32 years in prison, said: "By and large, criminality isn't a rational, calculated choice, it's desperate people doing desperate acts."
Gunn - a self-confessed "50-a-day man" - describes it as a "purely vindictive, petty, small-minded policy". The only positive, he says, is that it might incense prisoners into thinking more politically - for example, forming a prisoners' union and having a greater say in penal reform.

Holy smoke - licence could be a drag

FIRST it was a $5 per pack tax rise. Now cancer experts want people to have to apply for a licence to smoke.
"This is terrible,'' said electrician Ryan O'Neill, 29.
The Darwin City tradesman said that it wasn't about cigarettes but about freedom.
"They're getting more controlling every single day,'' he said.
"They want to have us as little robots going along and paying our mortgages.
"We're all adults and we should be able to make our own choice as an adult.''

Professor Roger Magnusson, of the University of Sydney's Law School, and Professor David Currow, of the Cancer Institute of NSW, say a smart-card licence would combat teenage smoking.
Retailers would have to check the licence before every sale to verify that every pack sold is purchased by an adult, the authors write in today's Medical Journal of Australia.

Plain packaging reduces allure of cigarettes

Scientists on Monday said they had evidence that plain packaging for cigarettes diminishes the appeal of smoking, as anti-tobacco campaigners suggest.
European countries are considering whether to follow Australia, which last year became the first country in the world to sell cigarettes in plain packets.
In Australia's case, the cigarettes are sold in identical olive-green packets bearing the same typeface, in addition to health warnings.

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Tobacco Brands Still Relentless on Advertising in Indonesia

Five-year-old Bayu was watching a movie on television. During the ad break, a barrage of cigarette ads streamed across the screen. Bayu was able to recognize the brand of each cigarette just by watching the commercials.
“They were funny. Those men were really funny and smart,” he said.
Bayu is also regulary exposed to cigarette branding while watching badminton on TV with his father, or while enjoying telecasts of music concerts. He has also seen ads created by a cigarette company that blatantly say “Don’t Quit” on their billboards, an advertising move it would be hard to mistake as having any other motive than to discourage smokers from kicking the habit.
World No Tobacco Day is celebrated worldwide today.
According to the World Health Organization, three of every four Indonesian children between the ages of 13 and 15 are exposed to cigarette ads on billboards and pro-tobacco messages at sporting events.
“In Indonesia, advertising, promotion and sponsorship went crazy after we passed the 2009 Health Law labeling tobacco an addictive substance,” says Kartono Muhammad, the head of the Tobacco Control Support Center at the Indonesian Health Experts Association (IAKMI).
“The tobacco industry has since been fighting fiercely to annul the regulation.”
According to data from research company Nielsen, Indonesian tobacco companies spent Rp 1.98 trillion ($202 million) in 2010 on cigarette advertisements.
“Our children first learn about cigarettes from ads, because even though wehave agreed that tobacco is an addictive substance, we have neglected to completely ban tobacco advertising,” Kartono says.
“It’s a double standard that we have banned alcohol advertising because alcohol is considered an addictive substance, but we allow advertising for cigarettes, which are also addictive. What makes cigarettes so special?”
Broadcast ban
“We are fighting for a total ban on cigarette ads, and to be honest it’s a very hard fight,” says Ezki Suyanto, the deputy chairwoman of the Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI).
Under the 2002 Broadcasting Law, cigarette ads on television may only be aired after 9:30 p.m. However, Ezki says that cigarette companies use many other methods to promote their products before then.
“In the afternoon, while children are still watching TV, you can see cigarette logos diplayed at music and sporting events, which is a form of advertising,” she says.
She added that the KPI recently reprimanded a TV station that had aired a quiz sponsored by a cigarette company during the daytime. “They argued they didn’t air any ads, but merely displayed the logo in the background. I said that even if it had just been the company colors without the logo, the KPI still classified it as an ad.”
Ezki notes that Indonesia is the only country in the Southeast Asian region that still allows cigarette ads to be aired on TV.
“In our country, after 9 p.m. the TV stations still bombard their viewers with cigarette ads, with practically no other ads being aired,” she says.
She adds the KPI has been lobbying for new regulations to challenge the current broadcasting regulations.
“What we want is a total ban, but the resistence is tremendous,” she says, adding that the KPI has been heavily criticized by television stations and legislators.
“It’s very hard to convince legislators, but we stand firm. Television and radio stations have direct access to the public, and so they have a responsibility not to promote dangerous substances,” Ezki says.

A Smoking Ban in All Related Companies Rentals

In a move that may enrage those who enjoy a cigarette on their couch after work, but delight air-freshener-wielding neighbors, a major landlord has banned smoking in all of its apartments across the country.

As of this month, the Related Companies has decided that tenants can no longer light up in the 40,000 rental units it owns or manages. The edict, which builds on an effort that began for Related with a handful of its New York buildings in 2009, is meant to create healthier living conditions, company officials said.

Britain At War... With Churchill's Smoking Habit

The fulminators in Britain's modern health-and-safety apparatus have never loved the historical irritation that Winston Churchill was a cigar lover. To that end, a portrait at the entrance to a London museum has been airbrushed to remove a cigar hanging from the wartime PM's mouth.

Visitors to Winston Churchill's Britain At War can see a 1948 photo of the then-Leader of the Opposition gazing benignly down at them from the entranceway, his two fingers raised in the V-for-Victory gesture. But where, in the original print, a trademark stubby cigar is clenched in the left corner of his mouth, the new version is cigar-free, with the missing lip airbrushed in, lending Churchill's mouth an uncharacteristic sneer.

The museum has launched a retreat operation worthy of Dunkirk, with manager John Walsh claiming he wasn't aware that the picture had been doctored. Cigar aficionados in London will be entitled to feel aggrieved at such vandalism, with their pastime now hard to practise in public, despite the continued existence of a cigar scene. Despite this ham-fisted attempt to expunge Churchill's cigarophilia and posthumously rob him of his favoured Romeo y Julietas, the great man's bacchanalian philosophy speaks more to modern, hedonistic Britain than our fun-phobic mandarins would like to admit:

"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them."

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Mill’s criticisms are as true today as they were in the nineteenth century. Such policies are based upon a specific conception of the ‘right’ way to live, held by certain powerful groups.
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Bangladesh Anti-smoking people calling for an increase in the cigarette tax to reduce mortality

Tobacco online Bangladesh, activists called for the Government to raise tobacco taxes to reduce smoking, especially the rising number of deaths of non-communicable diseases caused by smoking cheap bidis, bidis made by the tobacco tablets, usually rolling of the leaves is made. "It is necessary to raise cigarette taxes to reduce tobacco consumption, because any form of tobacco - bidis, cigarettes or smokeless tobacco (snuff or chewing tobacco, tobacco products) - can be fatal health hazards, and poor consumption of bidis than the amount of the cigarette factory, "the NGO" Tobacco Free Youth Sports Rajika Jayatilake, vice president.


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 Governmental organizations Global Adult Tobacco Survey report shows that in 2009, Bangladesh more than 40% of adults smoking, 11% of adults suck "bidis", which is very popular in rural areas, a pre- packaging of cigarettes alternatives. According to the results of a 2012 study published by the prevention of tuberculosis and lung disease, League of Nations in Paris, during 1997-2010, bidi smoking rates rose more than 80%, while over the same period of cigarette smoking rate overall has increased by about 40%.

The researchers said that in Bangladesh, tobacco use is rising, mainly because the country's implementation of the tobacco tax, and rolling bidi raw materials cheaper, making the price of bidis is more expensive than any other cigarette. 4 bidi price of one taka, or 1 cent, installed in a pack of 25 cigarettes to spend at least 7 cents. The results showed that higher than for Di tobaccosmoking taxes would fall to 3.4 million adult smokers quit smoking bidis, and prevention of 3.5 million young people start smoking bidis. Tobacco use in Bangladesh every year nearly 5.7 million deaths and 38.2 million people become disabled. Jayatilake said, not just smoking, and even fatal to the working environment in the production of bidi factories.

More than "the harm the health of workers engaged in beedi work than bidi bidi smokers - men, women and even children in difficult to accept the conditions and harmful environmental roll bidis. According to the Bangladesh study conducted by the consumption and production of bidis displayed by the Tobacco Free Youth Sports in April 2012, an estimated 220,000 people work in the bidi cigarette factory - including unpaid women and children - they are continually exposed to tobacco dust and other toxic chemicals in the environment.

Cough, chest pain, vomiting and headache is a common disease of the beedi workers. The health services director, said 60 percent of Bangladesh's death and non-communicable diseases, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, chronic respiratory diseases and cancer. Changes in eating habits and lifestyle, tobacco use, indoor air pollution, and lack of health awareness are factors that lead to these diseases.

"We must make everyone understand that non-communicable diseases are widespread. And maternal mortality, mortality caused by non-communicable diseases is equally serious," the deputy program manager of non-communicable diseases and health services The Department is responsible for arsenic AKM Jafar Ullah said. The survey conducted by the World Health Organization in 2011 pointed out that in 2008, 648 women per 100,000 died from non-communicable diseases - is 2010 per 100,000 live births in the maternal mortality rate of 194 three times.