Hypocrites
In the United States, the major tobacco companies are showing how much they care about you. They’re trying to help you quit smoking, and they’re leading crusades against teenage consumption.
That’s nice of them.
Unfortunately, they’re also increasing cigarette production in poor nations around the world. Millions are dying.
In Nigeria alone, 300,000 people die every year as tobacco companies goose up the marketing as well as the manufacturing.
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Here’s what ANDnetwork .com just reported:
No fewer than five million people die yearly globally while 300,000 people die annually in Nigeria of tobacco related illness such as cancer, tuberculosis, heart failure and kidney failure, among others.
Minister of Health, Professor Eyitoyo Lambo, who gave the frightening figures at a news conference in Abuja on Tuesday to mark the world’s No Tobacco Day said about 1.4 million Nigerians smoke daily while 500,000 of them pick up cancer and TB yearly.
He stated that tobacco intake has been responsible for a global epidemic that is increasingly ravaging countries and regions that can least afford its toll of disability, disease, lost productivity and deaths.
“Tobacco causes over 25 diseases in man, including heart attack and stroke as well as several cancers. It also predisposes to tuberculosis, pneumonia disorders and account for a number of pregnancy-related morbidity,” he explained.
Lambo said tobacco is a major cause of death in the world as it is currently responsible for the death of one in every 10 adults worldwide, and warned that if current smoking patterns continue, it would cause a further 10 million deaths annually by 2020.
He added that half of the 650 million people who smoke today will eventually die of tobacco-related diseases and warned tobacco producing companies that have continued to put profits before life to have a re-think about the development.
Lambo lamented that rather than consider the health hazards that their products have caused and seek a remedy to the situation, multi-national tobacco industries continue to launch new products which are disguised to appear less harmful and more attractive.
“We are aware that today, tobacco companies continue to expand with new variants of the ‘light’, ‘mild’, ‘low tar’, cigarette campaigns so popular with the youths, thereby taking their old customers to more insidious levels of deception by promoting and selling new products disguised under healthier names and fruity flavour.
He maintained that tobacco smokers not only infect people by making them smoke but by sitting near them and called on Nigerians to completely and totally desist from tobacco smokers.
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