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The UN health agency warned that tobacco’s killer toxins also wreak havoc on the environment. [Photo: ITV.com]

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Tobacco kills seven million people, gulps $1.4 trillion annually – WHO

byAgency Report
May 31, 2017
2 min read

Tobacco use kills more than seven million people annually and costs over $1.4 trillion in healthcare expenditure and lost productivity, the World Health Organisation, WHO, says.

The Director-General of WHO, Margaret Chan, gave the assessment ahead of World No Tobacco Day, marked annually on May 31, and which targets the threats tobacco poses to global development worldwide

The UN health agency warned that tobacco’s killer toxins also wreak havoc on the environment.

Stamping out tobacco use can save millions of lives and combat poverty, WHO said, spotlighting for the first time the ways in which tobacco affects human well-being from an environmental perspective caused by production, distribution and waste.

“Tobacco threatens us all. Tobacco exacerbates poverty, reduces economic productivity, contributes to poor household food choices and pollutes indoor air,” the WHO chief warned.

WHO called on governments to implement strong tobacco control measures such as banning tobacco marketing and advertising, promoting plain product packaging, raising excise taxes and making indoor public places and workplaces smoke-free.

“Many governments are taking action against tobacco, from banning advertising and marketing, to introducing plain packaging for tobacco products, and smoke-free work and public places,” Oleg Chestnov, WHO’s Assistant Director-General for Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) and Mental Health, said.

For the first time, a WHO report links the impact of tobacco to nature and the environment, pointing out that tobacco waste contains over 7,000 toxic chemicals that poison the environment.

This includes human carcinogens with smoke emissions contributing thousands of tons of human carcinogens, toxicants and greenhouse gases.

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Moreover, the report underscores, tobacco waste is the largest type of litter by count globally.

“Up to 10 billion of the 15 billion cigarettes sold daily are disposed of in the ecosystem and cigarette butts account for 30 to 40 per cent of items collected in coastal and urban clean-ups.

“But by taking robust tobacco control measures, governments can safeguard their countries’ future by protecting tobacco users and non-users from these deadly products, generating revenues to fund health and other social services, and saving their environments from the ravages tobacco causes,” Ms. Chan stressed.

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All countries have committed to eradicate poverty through the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, key elements of which include implementing the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).

By 2030, the Convention and the Global Goals aim to cut premature deaths from noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) by one-third, including those tobacco-related, namely heart and lung diseases, cancer and diabetes.

“Tobacco is a major barrier to development globally,” Douglas Bettcher, Director of WHO’s Department for the Prevention on NCDs, said.

The report highlights that some 860 million adult smokers live in low-and middle-income countries.

Many studies have shown that in the poorest households, tobacco spending often represents more than 10 per cent of total household expenditure, leaving less money for food, education and healthcare.

“Tobacco farming inhibits education, as 10 to 14 per cent of children from tobacco-growing families miss class to work in tobacco fields.”

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Additionally, the report points out, tobacco contributes to 16 per cent of all NCDs deaths while women constitute 60 to 70 per cent of tobacco farm workers, putting them in close contact with often hazardous chemicals.

According to Mr. Bettcher, tobacco-related death and illness are drivers of poverty, leaving households without breadwinners.

“It diverts limited household resources to purchase tobacco products rather than food and school materials, and forcing many people to pay for medical expenses.”

Mr. Chestnov noted that one of the least used, but most effective, tobacco control measures to help countries address development needs is through increasing tobacco tax and prices.

“Governments collect nearly $270 billion in tobacco tariffs annually, but, the report identified, this could increase by over 50 per cent, generating $141 billion more by globally raising cigarettes taxes by 80 cents per pack, or one international dollar.

“Strengthening domestic resource mobilisation, this would create funds needed to meet the 2030 Agenda development priorities,” Mr. Chestnov suggested.

(NAN)

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