Today is The World No Tobacco Day, so I wanna say something ~
Today is The World No Tobacco Day. WHO campaign is about "Break Tobacco Marketing Net". There're so many material about the campaigns. I grab the poster here..
Well...it seems difficult to make people realize about the bad effects of smoking. Not only adult, I see so many under age people try to taste tobacco. What can we do to make them realize that tobacco is dangerous to health??
Let's see the facts on tobacco and second-hand smoke. (Credit : www.who.int)
1. Tobacco is the leading preventable cause of death in the world. It causes 1 in 10 deaths among adults worldwide. In 2005, tobacco caused 5.4 million deaths, or an average of one death every 6 seconds. The death toll is projected to reach more than 8 million by 2030 if current trends continue.
2. Tobacco kills up to half of its regular users. On average 29% of people around the world are smoking tobacco. Smoking is more common among men - 47.5% of all men smoke compared to 10.3% of women.
3. More than 80% of the world's more than one billion smokers live in low- and middle-income countries. Unless urgent action is taken, by 2030, more than 80% of tobacco related deaths will occur in the developing world.
4. Tobacco caused 100 million deaths in the 20th century. If current trends continue, there could be up to one billion deaths in the 21st century.
5. The smoke produced by burning tobacco products is known as second-hand tobacco smoke or environmental tobacco smoke. Tobacco smoke in enclosed spaces is breathed by everyone, exposing both smokers and non-smokers to its harmful effects. This is commonly referred to as involuntary smoking or passive smoking.
6. Second-hand tobacco smoke is dangerous to health. There are about 4000 known chemicals in tobacco smoke. Second-hand smoke also causes heart disease and many serious respiratory and cardiovascular diseases in adults which can lead to death.
7. An estimated 700 million children, or almost half of the world's children, breathe air polluted by tobacco smoke, particularly at home. Second-hand smoke causes many serious diseases in children and worsens conditions such as asthma.
8. The International Labour Organization estimates that at least 200 000 workers die every year due to exposure to smoke at work. The United States Environmental Protection Agency estimates that second-hand smoke is responsible for about 3000 lung cancer deaths annually among non-smokers in the country.
9. Exposure to second-hand smoke also imposes economic costs on individuals, businesses and society as a whole, in the form of direct and indirect medical costs and productivity losses.
10. There is no safe level of exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke. Neither ventilation nor filtration, even in combination, can reduce the exposure indoors to levels that are considered acceptable. Only 100% smoke-free environments provide effective protection.
PS : That's why I hate smokers. They're not just kill their own life but also OTHERS!!!