Let´s think differently... What is the role of Tobacco Industry in our Life?
Autor: DDS, M.Sci, Ph.D Research Scholar, Zenildo Santos Silva Jr | Publicado: 2012-05-31T08:29:00-07:00



fonte: tobacco-facts.net


Theme: Tobacco industry interference16 September 2011 -The World Health Organization (WHO) selects "tobacco industry interference" as the theme of the next World No Tobacco Day, which will take place on Thursday, 31 May 2012.



&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The campaign will focus on the need to expose and counter the tobacco industry's brazen and increasingly aggressive attempts to undermine the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) because of the serious danger they pose to public health. Tobacco use is one of the leading preventable causes of death. The global tobacco epidemic kills nearly 6 million people each year, of which more than 600,000 are people exposed to second-hand smoke. Unless we act, it will kill up to 8 million people by 2030, of which more than 80% will live in low- and middle-income countries.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As more and more countries move to fully meet their obligations under the WHO FCTC, the tobacco industry's efforts to undermine the treaty are becoming more and more energetic. For example, in an attempt to halt the adoption of pictorial health warnings on packages of tobacco, the industry recently adopted the novel tactic of suing countries under bilateral investment treaties, claiming that the warnings impinge the companies' attempts to use their legally-registered brands. Meanwhile, the industry's attempts to undermine the treaty continue on other fronts, particularly with regard to countries' attempts to ban smoking in enclosed public places and to ban tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship. World No Tobacco Day 2012 will educate policy-makers and the general public about the tobacco industry's nefarious and harmful tactics.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It will also be in keeping with the letter and the spirit of the WHO FCTC. The preamble of the treaty recognizes "the need to be alert to any efforts by the tobacco industry to undermine or subvert tobacco control efforts and the need to be informed of activities of the tobacco industry that have a negative impact on tobacco control efforts".&nbsp; Also the public health campaigners are often critical of governments. We argue that not enough is being done. We worry about the magnitude of the problems we face, the direct and indirect opposition, the slow pace of action, and the reluctance of politicians to give prevention the priority it merits. That has applied to tobacco more than to any other area of prevention since 1950, when a momentous report in the British Medical Journal by Sir Richard Doll and Sir Austen Bradford Hill demonstrated the lethal nature of smoking beyond any doubt. Over those sixty years almost a million Australians have died because they smoked. While there has been steady progress, we have become all too used to expressing our concerns at the lack of action appropriate to the toll of preventable death and disease.

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;But suddenly, almost out of the blue, we have had an annus mirabilis. 2010 stands to be seen as the year in which Australian governments moved more decisively on smoking than any other governments anywhere around the world. Let´s think differently... What is the role of tobacco industry in our life?


Reference:


http://www.who.int/nmh/a5816/en/index.html


Australia – Leading Nation in Antismoking Efforts


Philip Morris sues Australian government over tobacco laws


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