Smoke-free campaign launched
Fri, 18 December 2015 ppp
Pech Sotheary
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| A man smokes a cigarette in Phnom Penh. Pha Lina |
A new government initiative to warn Cambodians about the dangers of smoking tobacco was launched yesterday by the Ministry of Health and World Health Organization.
At the launch of the campaign dubbed “Tobacco Makes Your Children Die”, the director of health improvement at the ministry, Chhea Chhordaphea, called for “more effective measures” that will protect non-smokers from second-hand smoke and “will encourage the smoker[s] to quit”.
Ung Phirun, a secretary of state at the ministry, said a plan is in the works to submit sub-decrees to the Council of Ministers that would mandate smoke-free environments. However, neither Chhordaphea nor Phirun could provide a precise date for when that would happen.
Data presented at the launch show that 75 per cent of women and 80 per cent of children are living in families in which at least one member smokes. Also, 80 per cent of Cambodians support smoking bans for public transit, restaurants and the workplace.
The campaign will see ads placed on tuk-tuks in Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Battambang and Kampong Cham, and five short TV spots will be broadcast over the next three months.
1 comment:
although i don't smoke myself , i believe that people should have the right to do what they want with their life --so long it does not harm others in the process... smoking tobacco itself is not that harmful , it is the extra ingredients that cigarette producing companies are adding to tobacco such as extra nicotine and others harmful ingredients to make people addicted to it which make smoking bad for their health.. in the US there are about 80 extra ingredients added to tobacco during the process of making it into cigarette. Also cigarette co. has been working continuously on breeding tobacco plants with highest content of nicotine [a la GMO style -- genetic modified organism -- which has been proven by some scientist to cause cancer in rats -- tested in lab ] to keep people addicted longer as fewer and fewer people are smoking it.
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