Professional Documents
Culture Documents
of knowledge of harm
Types of tobacco and harmful ingredients
Deaths caused by smoking
Harm smoking
Harm e-cigarettes
Harm SHS, THS
Harm of smokeless tobacco
Health professionals
Harm to youth
Interventions
History of knowledge of
harm
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Tobacco Atlas
TYPES OF TOBACCO USE
CHAPTER 04
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DEATHS
CHAPTER 01
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Tobacco pandemic
increasing
More
More peoplemore
smokers
Tobacco
Consumptio
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#
Smokers
1.4b
1.6b in
2030
Tobacco
annual
deaths
6m 810m
Smoking deaths
8 to
10m
2030
5.4
m
200
5
die;
half in middle
age
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Tobacco deaths if no
quitting
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Tobacco Atlas
HARM FROM SMOKING
CHAPTER 02
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Addiction
Most
1/5
Lack of awareness that smoking causes heart disease: 3% in France to 46% in China
Lack of awareness that smoking causes stroke is higher: 8% in Germany to 70% in China
Awareness that smoking causes lung cancer is higher almost everywhere.
The Oral Health Atlas. Roby Beaglehole, Habib Benzian, Jon Crail,
Judith Mackay. Published by FDI World Dental Federation 2009.
Myriad Editions.
COPD
75% due
to tobacco
Smokeless
Tobacco and oral
cancer
Popular in South
Asia
Economics costs of
harm of tobacco
1. Costs of smoking
a) Costs to government, society
b) Costs to smokers
3. Costs of tobacco control
Increasing cost to
govts & employers
HEALTH COSTS
OTHER ECONOMIC
COSTS
Economic burden of
smoking to govts,
workplace & individuals
MONITOR
Ho Chi Minh
Cancer
Hospital:
Health Care
Unable to
Cope
More costs to
governments
Deforestation
tobacco
Cost of the use of arable land that could grow
food
Loss of foreign exchange if cigarettes are
imported
death
health
Health care costs
Costs of second-hand smoke on family health
Costs of purchasing cigarettes
Harm of e-cigarettes?
Immense
Independent Scientific
Committee on Drugs
E-cigarettes
More or less harm?
Immense
Tobacco Atlas
SECONDHAND SMOKING
CHAPTER 03
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PROTECT
31%
smoke is contamination by
tobacco smoke that lingers following the
extinguishing of a cigarette.
Nicotine and other components of the smoke
tend to coat a space's surfaces and continue to
emit toxins.
Eleven carcinogens found in third hand smoke
including nitrosamines and radioactive
polonium.
It may linger for months, especially in soft
furnishings.
Tobacco Atlas
SMOKELESS TOBACCO
CHAPTER 11
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Smokeless
Tobacco and oral
cancer
Popular in South
Asia
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Tobacco Atlas
HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
CHAPTER 12
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Childrens Health
Never born
Some
Smoking in
pregnancy
Children
are affected by
tobacco from the moment of
conception.
Smoking in pregnancy
causes complications
affecting mother and foetus,
such as stillbirth and
prematurity.
Exposure to SHS
Exposure
of the foetus,
infant & child to secondhand smoke increases:
Risk of stunted
development, SIDS
Exacerbation asthma &
respiratory infection
Childhood cancers
Cleft palate
Risk of allergic diseases
Possible risk of learning
disability
Early poster HK
Starting to smoke
Globally,
smoke is
under 20 years, many before
the age of 10
have shown:
Peer pressure
Curiosity
Rebellion
Wanting to look grown up
Think smoking cool
Being targeted &
manipulated by tobacco
industry
Belief that most adults
smoke
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Prevalence BOYS
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Prevalence GIRLS
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Tobacco industry
promotion
Tobacco
A program to
discourage teens
from smoking
(an adult
decision) might
prevent or delay
further
regulation of the
tobacco
industry.
US Tobacco Institute
April 1982
Bates 03673753-03673762
HK
1995
Industry-funded front
groups
What needs to be
done?
Impact of Interventions
Next Steps
Fully implement
FCTC
Provide adequate
funding
Set targets
Novel ideas
Thank You
Professor Judith Mackay
Senior Advisor
jmackay@worldlungfoundation
.org