(Photo: Reuters)Mar 10, 2009
DPA
New Delhi - Tobacco will kill 6 million people annually by next year and cause an estimated 500 billion-dollar loss to the global economy, according to health conference in India Tuesday.
The 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Mumbai revealed that China and India were the world's biggest tobacco users at 325 million and 241 million tobacco users respectively.
'Tobacco industry has shifted its marketing and sales efforts to countries that have less effective public health policies and fewer resources and by 2010, tobacco will kill 6 million people worldwide annually,' Judith Mackay, special advisor at World Lung Foundation which prepared the document with American Cancer Society, the Zee TV news network reported.
The economic costs were a result of lost productivity, misused resources, ineffective taxation and premature death, the study claimed.
'Because 25 per cent of smokers die and many more become ill during their most productive years, income loss devastates families and communities,' study author Hana Ross was quoted as saying.
The report said since 1960, global tobacco production had increased 300 per cent in low and middle-resource countries while declining more than 50 per cent in high-resource countries.
Public health advocates at the conference also said the tobacco industry in Southeast Asia was systematically obstructing the implementation of a global treaty on curbing smoking and tobacco use.
The alleged abuses of tobacco firms ranged from attempting to write tobacco control laws and blocking the passage of key legislations in the Philippines, Laos and Cambodia, and using so-called 'corporate social responsibility' to circumvent laws and regulations in Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and the Philippines.
The 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Mumbai revealed that China and India were the world's biggest tobacco users at 325 million and 241 million tobacco users respectively.
'Tobacco industry has shifted its marketing and sales efforts to countries that have less effective public health policies and fewer resources and by 2010, tobacco will kill 6 million people worldwide annually,' Judith Mackay, special advisor at World Lung Foundation which prepared the document with American Cancer Society, the Zee TV news network reported.
The economic costs were a result of lost productivity, misused resources, ineffective taxation and premature death, the study claimed.
'Because 25 per cent of smokers die and many more become ill during their most productive years, income loss devastates families and communities,' study author Hana Ross was quoted as saying.
The report said since 1960, global tobacco production had increased 300 per cent in low and middle-resource countries while declining more than 50 per cent in high-resource countries.
Public health advocates at the conference also said the tobacco industry in Southeast Asia was systematically obstructing the implementation of a global treaty on curbing smoking and tobacco use.
The alleged abuses of tobacco firms ranged from attempting to write tobacco control laws and blocking the passage of key legislations in the Philippines, Laos and Cambodia, and using so-called 'corporate social responsibility' to circumvent laws and regulations in Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia and the Philippines.
15 comments:
Dr. (Dog roar) Hun Sen is a role model. When he smokes a lot, people just smoke a lot too.
Ah Hun will die soon by his fucking chain smoking.
This is byproduct of too much westerner's cigarettes usage.
when you post your article, please put a link to the original website address.
Thanks
Good point, 11:14, the source must be retarded. They claimed half of trillion usd lost to smoke illness worldwide which is highly unlikely. The population of India and China already make up about half of the world population, and I doubt that a quarter of trillion usd ever been spend in that area.
Again this is the work of pouk ah Scam Rainxy trying to destroyed Khmer cigarette industry just for political gain.
wISH THE LEECH HAVE CANCER AND NEVER DIE!!
don't you guys have new pictures to show here? seemed like you keep showing old pictures most of the time on this blog. please keep up with new technolog. don't forget cambodia is not the same as say 10 or 20 years ago, so please be courteous to when poking fun of others to show new pictures here. thank you.
1:00am IF YOU DON'T LIKE CLASIC! drop death and stop come in here! We like what KI doing!
Pouk ah chhud Scam Rainxy just want to make trouble everyday.Pouk ah chhud ehng could die soon,because ah chhud ehng never did something for khmer people.
man the funny thing is most of the people here talking smack havent even set foot in cambodia yet fuckin retards
2:33Am are you stupid? Do your mother teach you to lie?
May lightning strike the liars!!!!!
2:33AM you are right we never kille the demostrators, union leaders, journalist, actres, actors, radio anouncer; who all Khmer!
We never make coup deta1
We never do land grabing, torture, and threatening people!
ALL we do, are cry for justice ans ask for help from other humabeing!
And we will keep crying untill the whole world know about the UNJUSTICE AND KILLING by ah Hun Xen in Cambodia!
Min baan chuork dek min loy.
Hun Sen chuork banghoy.
Hun Sen banghoy leu Chen.
Chuork proy...Chuork proy...
Noruork si suort!
Ah chorl m'ray chuork!
Chet reuy!
We shall be thankfull to the tobaccos companies to contribute to the death of millions of people. The earth planet is too little and in the future there will be not enough resources, food, water, lands for everybody as the earthian population continue to grow up. We need things as war, illness, poverty and misery and cancer to counter balance the growth of the population...
In that way, Cambodia shall be praise by the UN for such contribution to the earth sustainable environment and preservation.
What? where are those millions of dead that was caused from smoking Khmer cigarettes?
Shut the fuck up, Ah Potato Digger (9:21), if you don't know what you are talking about.
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