Discouraging smoking
Tuesday, 7 October 2008
In many countries, tobacco has been made unavailable so that people feel discouraged to smoke. Even finding a place where smoking is allowed is really difficult in these countries. Recently, England adopted a law to force the tobacco producers to print pictures on the cigarette packets showing health hazards involved in smoking.
Despite having a law which prohibits smoking in public places, we have failed to check the growth in the number of smokers. People smoke in public gathering, bothering least about what kind of hazards they are causing for others. Every day, the number of smokers is increasing. This is because they feel encouraged to do so watching people smoking in open places. The mass campaign on anti-smoking is only found on the occasion of 'No-tobacco day'.
It is learnt that tobacco contains more than 40 different toxic chemicals which cause innumerable health hazards apart from deadly cancer, heart diseases. The World Health Organisation has disclosed that the governments have to spend more money on the treatment of the people who are suffering from smoke related diseases than what they earn from cigarettes manufacturers as duty and taxes. Tobacco, in no way, brings any good to us. So the government must take strict measures to discourage its production as well as marketing in the country.
Shahidul Alam
Motijheel, Dhaka
Despite having a law which prohibits smoking in public places, we have failed to check the growth in the number of smokers. People smoke in public gathering, bothering least about what kind of hazards they are causing for others. Every day, the number of smokers is increasing. This is because they feel encouraged to do so watching people smoking in open places. The mass campaign on anti-smoking is only found on the occasion of 'No-tobacco day'.
It is learnt that tobacco contains more than 40 different toxic chemicals which cause innumerable health hazards apart from deadly cancer, heart diseases. The World Health Organisation has disclosed that the governments have to spend more money on the treatment of the people who are suffering from smoke related diseases than what they earn from cigarettes manufacturers as duty and taxes. Tobacco, in no way, brings any good to us. So the government must take strict measures to discourage its production as well as marketing in the country.
Shahidul Alam
Motijheel, Dhaka