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Fighting snuff meets 40 years without success
For 40 years we know how bad it is and snuff, however, the number of smokers continues to rise in the world. Even in Western countries, where he has declared war, consumption has remained stable over the past ten years. This defect causes major health problems to 8.6 million people in the U.S.. The figures show that, to continue with the consumption from 2030, die each year 10 million people in the world because of him, including seven million in developing countries. Although the figures are frightening, we still develop policies to reduce consumption.
‘The New England Journal of Medicine stated in its latest issue an article on how the U.S. government is facing the problem of smoking and what other steps can be taken. Steven A. Schroeder, University of California (USA), is the author and is based on the smoking policy innovations arising from the signing in 1998 of an agreement between the attorneys general of 46 states and the four major American companies snuff. An agreement in which the tobacco industry agreed to invest in health programs in exchange for some degree of immunity on claims of the past.
The agreement was that companies should pay snuff 200,000 million euros in 25 years, money that states could spend as they wished. After this period, payments would continue as long as the four companies continue taking 99% of the American market. As state attorneys can not say what the government spends money, your investment can not be determined a priori, although it indicates that it is advisable to invest in programs to reduce the pathology associated with snuff. Read the rest of this entry »
Need Critics Society Campaign to Ban Tobacco
said people need to be vigilant and critically assess the anti-smoking campaign. ”Attitude is important to see clearly the problems that exist,” said Revrisond, in discussion Nicotine War, at the Center for Japanese Studies, on Tuesday. According to him, there is an important task in a society that is not easy to believe about something, the analysis of what is, and also if you already know the need to criticize the existing problems.
“This is to make sure that people do not become victims.
In economic terms he said the tobacco industry provides many inputs to the government and also a lot of help sports teams in conducting their activities. Revrisond also assess if anti-smoking campaigns continue echoed the pharmaceutical industry will be a lot of networks that control the raw material of nicotine, and drugs are also used to quit smoking has increased. ”The pharmaceutical industry a lot of that profit from the activity of smoking,” he explained. Medium from the health side saying in health science paradigm different between west and east. If the world looked east to the prevention of health before the illness, while the west to provide treatment after the illness.
“We already have pengobtan tradition of using herbs and medicine through the physician. Meanwhile, researchers from the Institute for Global Justice, Salamudien Daeng assess the anti-smoking campaign is the integration of marketing of pharmaceutical products.
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Want to Quit Smoking? Use Anti-Smoking Vaccine
Most smokers often try hard to stop the addiction to cigarettes. But, rarely is successful doing it. Two pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and the Prophet Pharmaceuticals working together to help smokers who want to quit. Both will provide the vaccine named nicVAX that diijeksikan to the smoker’s body.
nicVAX entering the smoker’s body, would form a functional antibody molecule binds all nicotine molecules, preventing nicotine from reaching the brain. As reported by the Telegraph, on Thursday (19/11/2009), by preventing nicotine from reaching the brain, the stimulation of people to go back to smoke will be reduced. The vaccine has been tested on a number of smokers who claimed to be difficult to stop smoking. According to the biological division president of GSK, Jean Stephenne, if the vaccine is successful then at least able to protect the millions of smokers from the threat of death
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