Indonesian smoke cigarettes quarter of a trillion
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 05/31/2012 18:21
Sixty-five million people of Indonesia to spend Rp 100
trillion (U.S. $ 10.4 billion) to buy 225 billion cigarettes each year, doctors
say.Even worse, the number of smokers in this country has increased by 0.9
percent per year between 2000 and 2008, according to the Indonesian Doctors
Association (IDI).Underage smoking also increased, according to IDI. Only 7
percent of people aged 15-19 smoked in 1995. In 2010, the figure was 19
percent.World Health Organization recently reported that Indonesia has the
largest population of smokers in the world after China and India.
Indonesia is one of the largest population in the world. To snuff in terms of Indonesia ranks third. Government had already issued a wide range of anti-smoking laws. But the change is not supported by the attitude of the Indonesian society itself. Environmental factors, socio-cultural, and advertisements that influence the increase of people who smoke in Indonesia. Especially with the news that appears, that the children now also have started a lot of smoke. Education of parents is also very very important with the emergence of an event like this The government also should be firm in dealing with the rampant sale of cigarettes, and the government should be more assertive in making laws for tobacco use as a base for the manufacture of cigarettes. other than cannabis leaf tobacco can also be used as the main ingredient the manufacture of cigarettes. Marijuana has more harmful effects of tobacco. Effects of smoking can cause excessive addiction, and therefore an increase in the graph on smoking in Indonesia to increase each year. despite being warned not to consume tobacco in excess, but citizens of Indonesia ignored the existence of the warning. Smokers not only men, with the globalization of children and adolescents under the age of women were already taking it regularly.
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