Do Not Exist Cigarette Advantages
Published on February 20, 2009 4:44 AM
Tobacco authorities from China reported that cigarettes are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also said that cigarettes smoking can reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost the brain cells, speed up the people’s thinking, improve their reactions and increase their working efficiency.
Lung cancer warnings are not real, said tobacco authorities. They added that not from cigarette smoke but from cooking smoke people can get easier cancer.
Tobacco monopoly from China is the world’s most successful cigarette-marketing agency. Statistics show that with annual sales of 1.8 trillion cigarettes, the Chinese are responsible for nearly 1/3 of all cigarettes smoked on the whole planet. 2/3 of Chinese men are smokers, and surveys show that approximately 90% believe their habit has little effect on their health, or is good for them. Even in China’s medical community, 60% of male doctors are smokers.
Researchers said that tobacco monopoly is like a kind of drug which makes people to believe that cigarette smoking will solve their health problems, will help their lifestyle, will strength the equality of women, and even will eliminate the loneliness and depression.
In China are widely believed such kind of statements: "Smoking removes your troubles and worries. Quitting smoking would bring you misery, shortening your life."
This all findings made Canadian experts to go to China for to convince Chinese smokers of more realistic effects of smoking. They distributed anti-smoking posters, visited cancer patients, showed the graphic warnings on Canadian cigarette packs, and lectured on how the anti-smoking campaign has reduced Canada’s lung-cancer rate.
Experts found that in China today, the economy come first and everything else is secondary, including health care.
As Canadians distributed posters at a hospital, they saw a number of people smoking in the hospital. A hospital shop was openly selling cigarettes. While smoking rates have fallen sharply in Canada in the past two decades, the rate in China is still rising. The number of Chinese smokers is growing by 3 million a year, despite an estimated 1.3 million tobacco-related deaths annually.
Chinese cigarettes are cheap, as little as 30 cents a pack and the health warnings are hidden in small print on the sides of the packages.
The Canadian experts’ attempts to decrease smoking in China were unfavorable because children can easily buy cigarettes at Chinese shops, despite an official ban on sales to those under 18.
