Why in all civilized countries the population throws smoking, and in Russia there is more and more? Because our people do not know the whole truth about the dangers of tobacco, experts believe, while in the West have powerful preventive programs for this. After all, even among doctors, we have 70% smoke, in the states - only 2%.
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Do all we know about the true scope of harm to smoking?
Smoking — The main preventable factor that affects the health of the population of developed countries. And moreover - on the health of the population of the countries of the developing. Fighting tobacco in developed countries encourages cigarettes to look for new sales markets. Tobacco companies have invested almost 2 billion dollars in the development of cigarettes in Russia — 5% of all foreign investments in the Russian economy after the collapse of the USSR. This money allows corporations to influence short-sighted politicians, but do not make the country richer.
If people were not smoking, the life expectancy of men in Russia would increase by 6 years, and women — for 3 years. It is excluding the non-meaning of smoking. Tobacco companies do not want the number of smokers to be reduced, in connection with which they bring up politicians and scientists, deceive the public and hide the truth about tobacco: a classic example is a trial that followed the exposure of research funded by tobacco to hide the true scope of damage to tobacco.
Tobacco kills smokers. This is the only product that, when applied by direct purpose, even in small doses, adversely affects health. Satisfying his smoking cravings, the smoker dies 10 years earlier. At the same time, a decrease in life expectancy does not increase its quality, which decreases even with a minor year of smoking by reducing physical training, increase fatigue, poor well-being, other diseases.
Smoking reduces potency. In addition to green sputum, yellow skin, poor smell of mouth and patients with tobacco teeth is the cause of many diseases and reduces life. Smoking due to a minimum of 90% of lung cancer, 15–20% of cases of other oncological diseases, 75% of cases of chronic bronchitis and lung emphysema, 25% deaths from cardiovascular diseases.
Smoking harms health and kills people around a smokers. The side stream of smoke highlighted by a cigarette outside the tightening is 4 times with carcinogen (more dangerous in terms of cancer development) and harmful smoke damaged due to low combustion temperature. In this regard, passive smoking almost only is half less harmful than active. Passive smoking reduces life on average for 5 years. In Russia, many children live in jammed apartments, many professions (waiter, bartender) are associated with daily passive smoking.
Smoking harms health and kills children. Smoking before and especially during pregnancy, during breastfeeding, it will significantly harm the child's health, and also increases the risk of a number of diseases throughout his life. The risk of death of newborns increases by the smokers about 2 times, and even those who «Sometimes beats cigarettes», — at least 10%. Smoking for children increases their risk of nicotine addiction and subsequent — smoking with all the ensuing consequences.
Tobacco dependence on which it is difficult to get rid of
Smoking causes a strongest dependence comparable in power with heroin. According to a study conducted by one of the world's largest tobacco companies (Imperial Tobacco, 1989.): «Within 6 months, 43% of smokers tried to quit smoking, but only 1.8% succeeded. Up to 72% of women who stopped smoking during pregnancy, resume smoking after delivery. Again begin to smoke after operations 50% of patients with lung cancer and 40% of patients with larynx cancer».
At the same time, most smokers would like to quit smoking. And in the long run in the presence of a supportive environment and in some cases qualified medical care to quit smoking it is possible (not always the first time and always not very simple). In a number of countries where there are similar favorable conditions, almost 40% of smokers quit smoking.
Impact «lungs», «soft» And other cigarettes on health does not differ from any other cigarettes, it is only a thin marketing course of tobacco companies aimed at deception of smokers. Compliance with quality standards (for example, gta stamps), the presence of filters, tobacco processing does not affect its harm, as the smokers himself doses smoke, getting more harmful substances due to deeper and frequent tensions. Anyone who speaks of safer and high-quality cigarettes in the context of health, or illiterate, or (and it happens more often) work on tobacco companies.
Manufacturers of cigarettes Immoral and cynical disinform consumers. Tobacco advertising and other marketing moves are directed not to try to divide the market with competitors, but to increase the size of the market due to women and children (since the number of smokers is already close to the maximum). A halo of adulthood and masculinity around smoking — Method to make our children smokers.
Glamority, grace of thin cigarettes with menthol — way to increase the number of smokers. Tobacco companies first learned about the dangers of smoking and threats of passive smoking, that there is no safe cigarette, and these facts hid. Moreover, they are trying to lead the discussion to the side, financing research in the field of ecology and bribing scientists. In particular, representatives of the InBiFo Research Office «Philip Morris» In Germany, they stated that passive smoking does not harm health, and argued that the whole thing in unfavorable ecology. At the same time, their own reports, declassified during court proceedings, indicate that the side stream of smoke due to the lower temperature of the tobacco combustion several times more carcinogenic compared to the smoke actively inhaled smokers.
Smoking is economically unprofitable
Tobacco companies are misleading and frighten the public with economic consequences of combating smoking, for example, a decrease in tax collecting as a result of increasing excise taxes on tobacco products. All studies that evaluate the economic consequences of the fight against smoking have shown that with increasing excise taxes on cigarettes, taxes in the budget are collected in a larger volume. This is explained by the fact that the demand for cigarettes is not elastic, that is, with an increase in prices for cigarettes, only a minor decrease in their demand occurs. In Russia, the tobacco lobby successfully manipulates the tax system. Why are the tobacco companies so afraid to increase taxes on cigarettes?
The answer is simple: the rise in prices for cigarettes limits their accessibility for teenagers and children, on which the market volume in the country in the near future. Higher cigarette prices are also fair, because through them smokers cover the expenses of the state associated with their own reduced disability. Reducing the working capacity of smokers, both at the expense of smokers and due to diseases and early mortality, as well as high expenses for the treatment of diseases caused by smoking, inhibit economic growth.
Tobacco Argument (Report A.D. Little by request «Philip Morris», 1999) concerning that smoking reduces the need for pension provision at the expense of earlier mortality, not only immoral, but also incorrect. Smoking costs the country's economy, is 13 times more expensive than saving on pensions. A healthy generation of retirement people is not only workable, but also makes the most important contribution to the production of intangible values, such as the care of grandchildren. In addition, smoking makes harm to the performance of people to retirement age and even children, including unborn.
Marketing moves of tobacco companies are extremely sophisticated. This is an advertisement and spectacular sports, and in color glossy magazines, distribution of cigarettes on the streets, indirect advertising in movies. Programs for informing children about the dangers of smoking are actively conducted in schools to the tobacco companies themselves under such devises as «Smoking — Choosing an adult man». And what kind of child does not want to grow as soon as possible? Tobacco companies intimidate the owners of restaurants in that the ban on smoking will lead to a decrease in attendance and thereby decreased profits. However, even smokers do not want to sit in the rushed rooms. And the ban on smoking in the bars of Ireland and Norway, contrary to all expectations, led to an increase in profits.
Tobacco companies argue that smoking — This is the right of a person who has made its choice. Ask your smoking acquaintances, would like to quit smoking... Ask them if they started smoking for the first time in an unconscious adolescence age. Ask them that they knew about the dangers of smoking at the time they started smoking. Ask those who live nearby, are it nice to breathe a cigarette smoke and see the cigarette cigarets.
