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Breanna jones Period 2 11/20/14 Smoking in Asia Quote from Wei Zheng "Tobacco smoking has now reached epidemic proportions in Asia and it is likely with the maturation of this epidemic and the lack of effective tobacco control efforts smokers will continue to face and increased risk of death from cancer and other smoking disease. Right now in this world tobacco causes more than 5 million deaths per year, and current trends show that tobacco use will cause more than 8 million deaths by, 2030(Center for Disease Control and Prevention).The effects of smoking are harmful to one's body and can cause numerous health issues and in some cases death.More than 5 million deaths a year is a huge amount of people that are being effected by tobacco use,and the number keeps growing.The country of Asia is especially affected by tobacco use and its harmful character traits. The global community must take steps to eliminate tobacco use.Smoking rates are very high in South Asian communities. South Asians often smoke cigarettes, bidis or a hookah, or chew tobacco in paan or gutkha. There are many health risks for example, chewing paan makes you five times more likely to get oral cancer (Palo Alto medical foundation). People in Asia find it very hard to stop smoking, 700 Million men in Asia say they can not get through the day with out smoking a cigarette. Cigarette consumption in China soared between 1970 and 1990 but has fallen slightly since. In Asia smoking among men is far more common than in the West. The worry, says Burke Fishburn of the World Health Organization (WHO), is that Asia will follow the Western trend, with more women taking up smoking as men quit. In Vietnam, for example, cigarettes are being peddled to urban women as a “sophisticated” pursuit.(Bangkok)
Smoking was traditionally not considered lady like but the tobacco companies targeted all women from media , fashion and anything else they could think of that would get the attention of women. (Kore Press)

People are trying to stop smoking worldwide and are trying to start a war against smoking.Heath leaders are getting together trying to come up with ideas on how they can get smoking band or get it set to a certain age limit . Today there are 1.1 billion smokers 80%,in the developing world. Starting today representatives from 191 nations are gathering together to

consider the smoking treaty that could restrict tobacco marketing to young Quote from Wei Zheng "Tobacco smoking has now reached epidemic proportions in Asia and it is likely with the maturation of this epidemic and the lack of effective tobacco control efforts smokers will continue to face and increased risk of death from cancer and other smoking Disease.

Asia marks it's productions and it has the best selling point, Most people that sell cigarets to Asia don't care about there health, they just care about there rates being improved. Some countries such as; Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand want them to put warning labels on cigarette packs. Other countries such as; Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam require only text warnings. Tursan d'espaignet wants to Increase tax to make tobacco products as unaffordable as possible he thinks that would be the best way for them to go. (David Tan)

So many polices have been in Asia that both have high and low income. Countries are waking up to Tobacco related health diseases,researchers say public awareness of smoking risks coupled with aggressive tobacco marketing has left Asian nations with some of the most highest smoking rates in the world. At times when sustained anti-smoking campaigns have lowered rates in the U.S. and parts of Europe.In a country where 44 percent of the male population

smokes a Health Minister named Moon Hyung-Pyo said the time had come to grapple seriously with the biggest threat to national health"Many Asian countries are in the early stages of the tobacco epidemic," said by the PLOS Medicine study.(Hewtti)

Dr.Alan Lopez the Pacific is particularly bad Countries like Tonga, PNG, Kiribati all have smoking prevalence in males above 50 per cent, and very high in females. That is unusual what we tend to see in the developing countries

Asia, is comparatively high and disturbingly high in fact. Prevalence for males, around 40 to 50 per cent but much lower prevalence for females. We do not tend to see that in the Pacific where women are smoking almost as much as men.(Garrett)

.(Schemer, Ron ).Europe may be leading the efforts to stamp out smoking in public places .People have been studying and it shows that teens smoking rate is very high to . But there losing at trying to get the teens to stop smoking most

teens are doing it because other people are doing and they wanna fit in . the U.S. Is trying to promote smokers to stop by putting up signs and commercials and apps this way will get teens attention more . Over the next 10 years most seientists are researching polonium in cigarettes and the radioisotope .

The people that seal cigarettes are trying to get out they contract on smoking because the see how bad it's hurting people and how unhealthy it is .smokers show that symptoms of addiction suck as withdrawal ,craving ,failed attempts to stop happen in the first week of smoking the percent of smoking went from 25

percent to 35 These results reside the question about nicotine from just one cigarette can mess up and alter your brain to trigger and addiction .when people try to interview the makers of cigarettes they don't have comments on the subject or say the same thing you can always stop smoking. Tobacco use is a world wide epidemic that effects different genders,races and age group, Ones experience hits close to home. When Ms pots was 22 in college she was pledging. She had to give cigarettes out to the big sisters in her sorority. As she keep selling them she began to smoke them her self,she thought if she would do it she would be cool. In 2011 she was diagnosed with COPD which stands for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. She had to walk around with a oxygen tank on her back for two years. She tried multiply times to stop she tried a peal called chantix for two months but that didn't work. On October 1 2010 she feel on her knees to God and asked him to please take the taste away from her. Since the she has never put a cigarette in her mouth since then. There are many possible solutions to kicking the habit of smoking like; raising prices of cigarettes,banning cigarette ads,restricting advertisement to youth ,tougher laws on marketing,reduction of tar and nicotine levels,stop attraction of cigarettes . On the web site Heath24 it says if you avoid caffeine,alcohol you should be better at trying to get over smoking in conclusion Health matter to many people around the world so before Asian continue smoking they should think about the risk they are taking on their health. The total health risk taken could be a disaster and can speed up over time.
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