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The Choice Is Now

Health

WHO's

Programme on Tobacco or

Health ushers in 1988 with a new health message, and plans to observe the World's 1st No Tobacco Day

T

he two logos, and the health messages they convey, displayed at the top right of this page, reflect a turn of events against tobacco over the past eight years or so.

For 1979 WHO's theme was "Smoking or Health:

The Choice is Yours," as depicted in the small cir- cular design. Today it is "Tobacco or Health:

Choose Health," as the large eight-sided logo proclaims.

Among developments that led to the change are the following:

• The determination by health officials that ciga- rette smoke is harmful to the health of non-smok- ers. When forced to breathe smoke-filled air, a non-smoker becomes, paradoxically, a smoker and thus at risk to tobacco-related diseases. According to estimates, each year passive smoking accounts for 4,000 to 5,000 deaths in the United States, and 1,000 deaths in the United Kingdom.

• The increasing number of women smokers in the industrialised world. Indeed since the mid- 1980s, lung cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the most common form of female cancer in the United States-the first country to show this trend.

• From 1960 to 1980, the mortality rate for fe- males from lung cancer doubled in 28 industri- alised countries. What did that advertisement pushing a special brand of cigarettes for women say?: "You've come a long way, baby" -they have, in lung cancer rates.

• The huckstering of smokeless tobacco, which is chewed and sniffed. The use of tobacco in this way causes mouth cancer, thus indicating that it is not only smoke but tobacco itself that threatens health.

• The scheduled testing this year of what is described as a "clean cigarette." Though promot- ed as "smokeless," "ash less," and "odourless,"

the new product is not tobacco-less, and tobacco endangers health.

• The growing belief in communities and nations that non-smokers have a right to breathe clean air in work places and in public spaces.

• The designation by WHO's World Health Assem- bly of 7 April 1988 as the World's 1st No Tobacco Day, one goal of which is to encourage smokers to voluntarily desist from using tobacco in all forms for a day as a first step to cutting down or to quitting.

• And the hard fact that about 2.5 million people die each year from all diseases caused by tobacco. In developed countries, cigarettes are linked to at least 80 per cent of all deaths from lung cancer, to 75 per cent from chronic bronchitis, and to 22 per

cent from heart disease. •

WORLD HEALTH, Jan./Feb. 1988

The turn of the tide against tobacco

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