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HEALTH &FITNESS-

SMOKING

Lydia Ling Huong

P(BC)/ MT/ BI

JULAI INTAKE 2008


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INTRODUCTION

One person dies every 5 minutes from

smoking related diseases.

A bad habit which is an action of

breathing smoke into the mouth or

lungs from burning tobacco, such as

cigarettes.


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Cause hazards especially to health.

Government had recently

implemented the policy of curbing theproblem by placing Pictorial Health

Warnings (PHW) on cigarette packs.


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HAZARDS OF SMOKING TO HEALTH

Leads to many fatal diseases such as lungcancer, heart diseases, stroke, chronic

lung diseases, mouth and gum diseases,

ulcer, other cardiovascular diseases and

infertility.

Tobacco smoke contains a substance

called nicotine, a poisonous alkoid.


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Contains about 4000 chemicals which

when heated produce a lot of substancesthat cause irrepairable damages to

health.

Constrict the blood vessels, which in turn

cause high blood pressure.

Raise our heart rate which adds extra

stress on our heart.


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Does not only affect the heart, but

every part of our circulatory system.

Our blood will become thicker and

stickier, further taxing the heart.


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FIRSTMEASURE: Placing Pictorial Health

Warnings (PH

W) on cigarette packs Since 1 of January 2009, the Malaysian

government had decided to place

graphic images on the cigarette packs.

Reduce the harm caused by tobacco use

and inform the smokers about thehealth effects of smoking to enable

them to quit smoking.


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The six images used

for the MalaysianPHW depict lung,

throat and mouth

cancer, footgangrene,

miscarriage and a

premature baby.


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(Health messages on

cigarette packs) Increaseawareness among the main

target group-the smokers

and able to deliverinformation directly to them.

Understand how serious the

diseases caused by smoking

are and how likely they are to

get them.


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Help to push the smokers to change their

attitude and practice due to the emotions

of fear, detest, anger, sad and regret.

Images should be vivid, clear and specific

which could be understood even withoutthe text.

The pictures on the front of the cigarettepacks must cover 40% of the surface,

while the ones shown on the back must

be 60% in size.


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SURVEYINSINGAPORE

(YEAR 2004)- RESULTOF

SEEINGTHEHEALTH WARNINGS

71% of affected smokers: Knew more

about the health effects of smoking.

28% of affected smokers: They smoked

less.

12% of affected smokers: Avoided

smoking in front of pregnant women.


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14% of affected smokers: Made it apoint to avoid smoking in front of

children.

8% of affected smokers: Smoked less at

home.

46% of non-smokers: They had advisedsmokers to quit.


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SECOND MEASURE:

Solving and banning the rise of the illicitcigarettes in Malaysia

Authorities should take action againstthe sales of illicit cigarettes.

Many tobacco products purchased atretail outlets do not bear the prescribed

health warnings.


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By this, the purchaser of

the cigarettes will easily

obscure the graphic health

warnings and the smokers

will be lack of awareness

about the hazards ofsmoking.


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CONCLUSION

PHWs have been implemented in

Canada, Thailand, Singapore and other

countries and have proven to be

effective in tobacco control, having

reinforced the clarity of health

messages among smokers and non-smokers, changing their attitudes to

quit smoking.


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Smoking cause a lot of hazards

especially to health so measures such as

PHWs and preventing the sales of illicitcigarettes should be implemented

effectively and continuously.


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THANKYOU

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