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The Dangers of Smoking
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Everybody knows that smoking causes cancer. Mainly because of effective anti-smoking campaigns, the number of smokers in advanced countries is rapidly decreasing.
But in Asia, very few smokers are giving up cigarettes. In fact, the number of smokers continues to increase every year. In China, the number of smokers has increased 260% since the early 1970s. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), 50% of Indonesian males, 73% of Vietnamese males, and 90% of Cambodian males smoke.
These figures are frightening, given what we know about the effects of smoking on people's health. It is estimated that in the next 30 years tobacco will kill more people in Asia than AIDS and tuberculosis combined. By 2025 seven million Asians will die of smoking-related diseases.
Reversing the trend is not going to be easy. While smoking already has a 'bad name'
in advanced countries, it is still fashionable in Asia. Smoking used to be taboo for women in most Asian countries, but now it is a sign of their emancipation. And carrying around a pack of imported foreign cigarettes is the ultimate status symbol for many Asians.
Most Asian governments have begun anti-smoking campaigns, but they can't match the huge amount of money which is spent on advertising by the big foreign tobacco companies. As a result, most Asian smokers don't really have a clear idea of what they are doing themselves by smoking.
Since many Asian governments depend a lot on the money that is raised by taxes on cigarettes, their anti-smoking efforts are limited. The Indonesian government raises one billion dollars a year from taxes on cigarettes. In some countries the government has a monopoly on tobacco and also collects huge revenues from the sale of cigarettes.
Multinational tobacco companies are also to blame for the current tobacco boom in Asia. As their home markets began to dry up due to anti-smoking legislation, they shifted their focus to the Asian market, especially China, with its market of 1.2 billion people.
Most people in the west realize that the tobacco industry has no real future. That's because it has been proven that cigarettes kill. They know that a product that kills people cannot remain popular forever.
Cigarette smoking is still new in Asia, so cancer rates from smoking haven't started to rise yet. As soon as they do, governments will start to act, just as they have done in the west. The sad thing is that millions of people will have to die first.
Q1) Do you think that nonsmokers should have the right to decide where smokers may or may not smoke? Why or why not?
Q2) Some people think it is okay fir men to smoke but not for women. How do you feel about it?
Q3) What's the best way to discourage teenagers from smoking?
Q4) Do you think that an anti-smoking campaign on TV and on billboards would reduse smoking? Why or why not?
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But in Asia, very few smokers are giving up cigarettes. In fact, the number of smokers continues to increase every year. In China, the number of smokers has increased 260% since the early 1970s. According to the World Health Organization(WHO), 50% of Indonesian males, 73% of Vietnamese males, and 90% of Cambodian males smoke.
These figures are frightening, given what we know about the effects of smoking on people's health. It is estimated that in the next 30 years tobacco will kill more people in Asia than AIDS and tuberculosis combined. By 2025 seven million Asians will die of smoking-related diseases.
Reversing the trend is not going to be easy. While smoking already has a 'bad name'
in advanced countries, it is still fashionable in Asia. Smoking used to be taboo for women in most Asian countries, but now it is a sign of their emancipation. And carrying around a pack of imported foreign cigarettes is the ultimate status symbol for many Asians.
Most Asian governments have begun anti-smoking campaigns, but they can't match the huge amount of money which is spent on advertising by the big foreign tobacco companies. As a result, most Asian smokers don't really have a clear idea of what they are doing themselves by smoking.
Since many Asian governments depend a lot on the money that is raised by taxes on cigarettes, their anti-smoking efforts are limited. The Indonesian government raises one billion dollars a year from taxes on cigarettes. In some countries the government has a monopoly on tobacco and also collects huge revenues from the sale of cigarettes.
Multinational tobacco companies are also to blame for the current tobacco boom in Asia. As their home markets began to dry up due to anti-smoking legislation, they shifted their focus to the Asian market, especially China, with its market of 1.2 billion people.
Most people in the west realize that the tobacco industry has no real future. That's because it has been proven that cigarettes kill. They know that a product that kills people cannot remain popular forever.
Cigarette smoking is still new in Asia, so cancer rates from smoking haven't started to rise yet. As soon as they do, governments will start to act, just as they have done in the west. The sad thing is that millions of people will have to die first.
Q1) Do you think that nonsmokers should have the right to decide where smokers may or may not smoke? Why or why not?
Q2) Some people think it is okay fir men to smoke but not for women. How do you feel about it?
Q3) What's the best way to discourage teenagers from smoking?
Q4) Do you think that an anti-smoking campaign on TV and on billboards would reduse smoking? Why or why not?
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