Introduction
While Mark Zuckerburg dreams of having a world without disease and research is making progress finding cures, at the present time one of the most costliest man-made inventions that has had the greatest impact on global health and economic burden is cigarettes and tobacco products. The Worth Health Organization (WHO) estimates by 2030 eight million people will be killed by tobacco and most deaths will occur in middle to lower income societies. Although smoking rates have decrease in developed countries in developing countries smoking continues to increase. In some of the poorest societies more is spent on tobacco than education. The reason to maintain profits tobacco companies are increasing marketing in countries with no or little …show more content…
This is one of the countries that the WHO is concern about as the economy improves and increase present of tobacco companies the fear is that tobacco use will rise. In this paper Husain, English, and Ramanandraibe look at data from the 2015 WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) implementation to describe how African countries are implementing and complying with these measures and best practices. They also did an analysis of MPOWER a tool which countries can use to measure and implement interventions to reduce tobacco usage. MPOWER stands for: monitor tobacco use; P: protect people from tobacco smoke; O: offer help to quit tobacco use; W: warn about the dangers of tobacco; Enforce bans on tobacco advertising and promotion; R: raise taxes on tobacco products (1). The authors’ look at six WHO African regions and the challenges they faced in tobacco prevention. They look at 148 indicators from the WHO FCTC Articles to assess the status of complying with the articles. Using a graph in Table 1 they showed the Article number with the percentage of implementation among the WHO African regions and five other WHO regions. The highest implementation rates were Article 12; 66% communication, education training and public awareness, Article 8; 63 % protection from exposure tobacco …show more content…
It is estimate that there are over one billion smokers. Population health, increase tobacco tax, surveillance of illicit tobacco trade and strong tobacco public policies will be needed to control the tobacco epidemic. Using Chris Jordan saying it starts with one person I can take this information to urge my congressman that there must be global involvement and US compaines must not be allowed to market in foriegn markets.In my field a smoking cessation discussion should be part of every patient with a tocacco history healthcare
While Mark Zuckerburg dreams of having a world without disease and research is making progress finding cures, at the present time one of the most costliest man-made inventions that has had the greatest impact on global health and economic burden is cigarettes and tobacco products. The Worth Health Organization (WHO) estimates by 2030 eight million people will be killed by tobacco and most deaths will occur in middle to lower income societies. Although smoking rates have decrease in developed countries in developing countries smoking continues to increase. In some of the poorest societies more is spent on tobacco than education. The reason to maintain profits tobacco companies are increasing marketing in countries with no or little …show more content…
This is one of the countries that the WHO is concern about as the economy improves and increase present of tobacco companies the fear is that tobacco use will rise. In this paper Husain, English, and Ramanandraibe look at data from the 2015 WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic and the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) implementation to describe how African countries are implementing and complying with these measures and best practices. They also did an analysis of MPOWER a tool which countries can use to measure and implement interventions to reduce tobacco usage. MPOWER stands for: monitor tobacco use; P: protect people from tobacco smoke; O: offer help to quit tobacco use; W: warn about the dangers of tobacco; Enforce bans on tobacco advertising and promotion; R: raise taxes on tobacco products (1). The authors’ look at six WHO African regions and the challenges they faced in tobacco prevention. They look at 148 indicators from the WHO FCTC Articles to assess the status of complying with the articles. Using a graph in Table 1 they showed the Article number with the percentage of implementation among the WHO African regions and five other WHO regions. The highest implementation rates were Article 12; 66% communication, education training and public awareness, Article 8; 63 % protection from exposure tobacco …show more content…
It is estimate that there are over one billion smokers. Population health, increase tobacco tax, surveillance of illicit tobacco trade and strong tobacco public policies will be needed to control the tobacco epidemic. Using Chris Jordan saying it starts with one person I can take this information to urge my congressman that there must be global involvement and US compaines must not be allowed to market in foriegn markets.In my field a smoking cessation discussion should be part of every patient with a tocacco history healthcare