This Killed A Billion People
If the world’s nations are going to prevent tobacco smoking from causing one projected billion deaths by the end of this century, they must: Make tobacco control part of the agendas of United Nation’s and other development agencies worldwide; Assure every sector of a nation including health, trade and finance officials work collectively to protect not only health but the harm tobacco places on their economy by passing laws to reduce use; Place health as the centerpiece of any decision on a trade treaty that includes tobacco; Diligently work toward a goal of reducing the prevalence rate of smoking to less than five percent world-wide by 2048, basically ending its use.
Those were among the key recommendations to come out of an international gathering last week at Harvard University of public health officials, academics, and public health advocates from more 40 nations, and such international organizations as the European Union, the African Union, the World Trade Union, and the World Health Organization.
“The only entity in the world to benefit if tobacco use is passed down to the next generation of poor children of the world will be the tobacco industry,” warned Gregory Connolly, chair of the meeting and director of the Center for Global Tobacco Control at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Harvard School of Public Health. “All other industries producing good products and services will suffer, not benefit, and the same is true for the economies of poor nations and their citizens,” if smoking is not snuffed out. This meeting was an historic step to make global smoking history,” said who two decades ago crafted Massachusetts’s tobacco control efforts.
And Dr. Douglas Webb of United Nations Development Program warned that “tobacco use poses a major health and human development threat. Avoidable and unnecessary, tobacco-linked illnesses strike people in their prime, hit the poorest hardest, inhibit country productivity, burden already weak healthcare systems, and consume scarce national resources.”
Sponsors of the unusual two-day conference on “Governance of Tobacco in the 21st Century,” at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, included WHO, the Harvard Global Health Institute, the American Cancer Society, and the Institute of Global Tobacco Control, at Johns Hopkins University. Meeting attendees were warned by speaker after speaker that unless there is a concerted international effort now, the plague of tobacco smoking that has claimed 100 million lives in the Developed Nations, will claim a billion in the Developing Nations, where smoking has yet to take hold as it did during the last century in the U.S. and other Developed nations.
But though the situation was described as dire, many nations present showed unity in passing tough national laws based on the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and demonstrated clear evidence of the scientific effectiveness of the FCTC in reducing use.
Dimitry Yanin of Russia announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin banned smoking in all public places beginning this past June 2013. The legislation will also restrict cigarette sales and ban advertising and sponsorship of events by tobacco companies;
H.E. Nicola Roxon, MP, and Former Attorney General and Minister of Health of Australia, reminded delegates to the that the Australian Supreme Court recently upheld legislation requiring plain pack cigarette packaging;
Dr. Eduardo Bianco of Uruguay presented data on the sharp decline in smoking through the adoption of comprehensive tobacco control measures recommended by the WHO. The decline in Uruguay is comparable to that seen a decade ago in Massachusetts, where smoking is now a rarity, said MIT professor Jeffry Harris, who has evaluated both programs;
Dr. Debby Sy, of the Philippines presented data on that nation’s recent successful efforts to greatly increase taxes on tobacco products, despite intense opposition from multi-national tobacco companies;
And Dr. Bernard Merkel of the European Union described the EU’s new proposed directive that would allow EU nations to adopt plain packaging, high taxation, smoke-free public places and proven measures.
Other sponsors of the meeting included the American Legacy Foundation, the World Health Organization, the International Development Research Centre, the Medical University of South Carolina, the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project, at the University of Waterloo, the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, at Georgetown University, the Framework Convention Alliance of Action on Smoking and Health, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, and the Southeast Asia Tobacco Alliance.
Contacts and sources:
B. D. Colen
Harvard University
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Nicotine and/or other components of cig smoke inhibit an enzyme that breaks down dopamine and other neurotransmitters and stimulates the release of them as well. Nicotine stimulates the sympathetic nervous system. During war, smokes are a hot commodity because they produce pleasurable physical effects to calm war torn nerves. The United Nations wants to be the the nanny over the whole world and the reason to ban nicotine is not to save lives. People have smoked leaf for 1000s of years. Only Americans get to have their tobacco dowsed with up to 559 additives. I submit it is the additives inhaled as smoke that causes most of the health problems, not the tobacco leaf. The paper is bleached and probably has other harmful additives. Alcohol prohibition on the UN agenda next? A UN group is urging D.C. to reprimand Washington and Colorado for legalizing cannabis which the UN group says is a violation of international treaties. The corrupt federal government enters into international treaties binding states without states’ approval of the treaties.
http://www.neuroradiology.ws/pinealomasphysiology.htm
http://www.worldofmolecules.com/drugs/nicotine.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_additives_in_cigarettes
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Just what we need on the planet … another 1,000,000,000 humans… Smoke em if you got em!
When my husband comes back home this weekend (he’s on a snowboarding trip) we have decided to quit smoking together. We have both smoked for 20 years, and tried a few times to quit, but didn’t have the willpower. I WILL quit, I am sick of being out of breath, and the money it costs could go into horseback riding lessons.
The electronic smokes are a great transition… I use Eon. They are cheap, charge with USB adapter. They taste good too. I smoked for 35 years and quit cold turkey after starting on them. You can reduce the nicotine as your craving for smokes reduces… Plus, they’re cool, cause you can smoke anywhere you want to again, and you just take a drag and stick em in your pocket… I smoked menthol ( marboro’s and Kools) The menthol is very satisfying. Good Luck!
Wrong. Self administered euthanasia is just one more theing that requires nothing from beurocrats……
Tobacco don’t kill people its the radioactive Phosphate fertilizer to increase production since 1970 that has killed billions. Tobacco was smoked and chewed for 1000s of years and nobody got killed, its just the corporate greed to increase production that has killed billons.
Google it radioactive tobacco
You can not blame the eventual death of everyone who smokes or has smoked on cigarettes. They can shorten your life, and cause cancer but not nearly as effectively as farm raised GM produce.
Why should the Elite care about cigarette smokers? Even though it takes more years then they would like, people will continue to die-off leaving more of the Earth’s remaining resources for them. The Elite will never allow a ban on tobacco, ever. They WANT to reduce the earth’s population, not increase it.
They don’t like the insurance costs. That’s why they are against tobacco.
THIS IS A FALSE out and out Lie. It has been taken out of context…a future possibility only.
WOW….where did you come up with this number? I checked WHO and here it is Read it and learn the truth before you spread untrue news. I am not saying smoking is good for anyone but the truth is the truth dude. Get you facts before you spread untruths to the world.
Also, exactly who promoted smoking to all ages since the early 1900s? Movies, TV, Military?
Yea. they did that…….and now they care? Who actually benefited?
WHO (World Health Organization)
Tobacco kills nearly six million people each year, of whom more than 5 million are users and ex users and more than 600 000 are nonsmokers exposed to second-hand smoke. Unless urgent action is taken, the annual death toll could rise to more than eight million by 2030.
If this is all you have to worry about nowadays……wo wake up.
How about drinking alcohol? How many innocent people die from its abuse?
The Oil/Gas Fracking?
Factories dumping into our water supplies and air and oceans.
and so on…..and on and on
And some people are only worried about the possible future of people smoking cigarettes? HU?
GET A GRIP Man. The real killers of mankind and life as we know it are much worse and closer to destroying us all.
If you are soooooo worried about it….DO SOMETHING. Start a fund for smokers to QUIT smoking that can not afford it or STFU with this BS.
Read the News, find out what HORRIBLE THINGS ARE NOW happening on Earth all around you. WAKE UP.
I have to agree for the fact that with everything that’s going on right now I don’t have the inclination to care about this worn out decades old haranging about gd dmn tobacco.
Oh Yea HEY:
Alcohol causes nearly 4 percent of deaths worldwide, more than AIDS, tuberculosis or violence, the World Health Organization warned on Friday.
Rising incomes have triggered more drinking in heavily populated countries in Africa and Asia, including India and South Africa, and binge drinking is a problem in many developed countries, the United Nations agency said.
Yet alcohol control policies are weak and remain a low priority for most governments despite drinking’s heavy toll on society from road accidents, violence, disease, child neglect and job absenteeism, it said.
Approximately 2.5 million people die each year from alcohol related causes, the WHO said in its “Global Status Report on Alcohol and Health.”
“The harmful use of alcohol is especially fatal for younger age groups and alcohol is the world’s leading risk factor for death among males aged 15-59,” the report found.
The Biggest Killer in the WORLD
Oh Yes, Booze is good for you Right ?
Cocktails with the girls. Wine with dinner. A nightcap before bed. Drinking may seem harmless, but drug experts recently said that alcohol is more dangerous than crack and heroin combined. In recognition of Alcohol Awareness Month, find out if you’re drinking too much…
It’s a lovely evening. You’re relaxed and having a good time with friends, so you signal the waiter for a second cocktail.
That extra glass or two won’t hurt, right? Wrong, say medical and addiction experts. Actually, it’s a fine line between moderate and excessive drinking and it’s easier to slip than you think.
Nationally, more women are being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, up 28.8% in 2007 from 1998, the FBI recently reported. About 5.3 million women in the U.S. threaten their health and safety with drinking, says Roy David Eskapa, Ph.D., author of The Cure for Alcoholism (BenBella Books).
News Flash!!! 100% of all people will consume natural resources and die! I don;t need or want a government, health organization, you, your mother, my mother or anyone else to tell me how to live my life. If you don’t like smoking, don’t, otherwise STFU.
The cost of maintaining these people into old age far outwieghs any other issue. One could argue the environmental damage an additional 1 billion people would cause.
One needs to ask the question. Why is it really that media has become so hell bent on tobacco? Whats really going on. Nicotine is a natural pesticide that humans can tolerate. Tobacco a healing plant of old now being attacked by our media that we can no longer believe. Start asking the questions. Why?
The path to hell is lined with good intentions. Have no good intentions and you shall not create hell.
There’s ten time more idiots in academia, than there’s in the general population!
The article above by B. D. Colen Harvard University just prove it to me!
Written by an educated idiot!
Hey Alton, what a piece of crappola brainwashing this article is. “This Killed A Billion People” – sort of gives new meaning to ‘the past, present and future all occurring at the same time’ – oh wait, that’s a billion deaths by 2048. Alton, what year are living in? 2050? Ever hear of freedom of choice? It’s a new concept. If someone wants to smoke that’s their business, and their choice. Since when did the U.N., global leaders, the World Health Organization, and the American Cancer Society suddenly become concerned about the health and well being of the majority of people on this planet? Let’s see, U.N. peace-keeper troops kill thousands upon thousands every year. The global leaders top that number, getting into the millions. The WHO promotes toxic carcinogenic vaccines, suppresses the use of supplements, all the while giving the green light GMOs. And that joke called the American Cancer Society has assisted in suppressing over 30 cures for can over the past 50-60 years – why? – because it would ruin a good money maker. Why don’t these so-called leaders talk about the 5,000 or so chemicals that are added to tobacco – think that might have anything to do with all of those ‘future deaths’? Did the Creator make a mistake putting tobacco plants on this planet? Or better yet, why aren’t these so-called leadersmaking any plans to deal with the Fukushima disaster? Which, by the way, has the potential to kill everything on the planet, which would sort of make the tobacco issue seem rather unimportant. Don’t hear these anything about that do we?
Life kills too. As sure as I live, I will die, cigarettes or not.
So I stopped smoking again. My lungs are clearing out but I’ve lost my allergy protection which means that when I do have an asthma attack, it’s usually worse because I’m more sensitive to the agent causing the reaction. I used to work at a camp in the woods. I could always breath easier up there, even when I didn’t smoke. So, as a smoker with lung issues, I can attest that smoking isn’t too bad in moderation. It’s what you smoke that matters most. I would also suggest to the smokers here that you should patronize a tobacco shop that grows and sells organic tobacco. Something like this: planetryo.com
Exactly. It’s the chemicals that they put into the tobacco that make them deadly. If you’re going to smoke, smoke American Spirits – there’s no additives in them – just the tobacco. It’s a little better for you at least.
American Spirits (Red pack) is the only one without additives and organically grown (no pesticides)
Question: Since when did the government or health agencies care about people’s health?
Answer: Since they started “operation soft kill.” Chemtrail particles are less likely to get lodged deep into lung tissues. The mucus and coughing expels the pollutants.
Just a thought….