According to World Health Organisation tobacco will prematurely kill 200 million who are now children and eventually wipe out ten percent of the world population. In many Asian countries people are surprisingly innocent and ignorant of the link between tobacco and disease. Many government are reluctant to frame rules, regulations and rigid laws on anti smoking as they are addicted to tobacco taxes. Countries like Argentina and Malawi get 22.5 and 16.7 per cent respectively on sales of tobacco. Everyone should make headway in discouraging smoking but all has been washed away by the flood of expensive advertising in almost all countries including Sri Lanka.
Tobacco companies are fully aware that their product undoubtedly causes death.
Yet they promote smoking at a rate. Sons and daughters of our soil should be cautious of untimely deaths caused by smoking and stop it at once. I purchased, I wrote to the Internal Trade Department, Colombo. Promptly, they replied, directing me to inform the health authorities. The contents are factually correct.