Tobacco Control Flashcards
What are the major drivers for tobacco consumption?
- Advertising
- Production methods and deliver
- Cost and availability
- Cultural shifts & peer behaviours
- Addictive power of tobacco
Who are the top 3 consumers of tobacco?
- China
- India
- Indonesia
What does the P in POWER acronym stand for?
Protect people from tobacco smoking
- Support comprehensive smoking bans in bars and restaurant
- Has been quite successful and approved even among smokers (15-20% increase in approval)
What does the O in POWER acronym stand for?
Offer help to quite tobacco use
- Nicotine patch can double quit rates
What does the W in POWER acronym stand for?
Warn about the dangers of tobacco
- Pack warnings are effective!
- Social marketing campaigns
What does the E in POWER acronym stand for?
Enforce bans on tobacco advertising
- Average consumption has decreased by 9% after introduction of comprehensive advertising bans
What does the R in POWER acronym stand for?
Raise taxes on tobacco
- Inverse correlation between consumption and tax rate
- Increasing price is one of the most effective measures for government to take to reduce consumption and prevalence
How does the tobacco industry act against policy?
- Manufacture uncertainty by raising doubts about even the most indisputable scientific evidence
- Promote scientific spokespeople who misrepresent
How has the epidemiology caused by smoking change over the years?
- Male lung cancers as low as they were in 1963
- Death rates for COPD as low as late 1950s
- Death rates for CHD low as the were immediately post WW2
How many deaths were everted since 1971 from smoking intervention? (from lung cancer, COPD, bronchitis, CHD)
400K!
What is the current smoking pattern globally? and what is the annual tobacco attributable death caused by it?
- 50% young men
- 10% young women
Deaths will rise from 5m in 2010 to 10m a year
If current smoking patterns persists how many people will tobacco kill this century?
1 billion!
