gimana ya, solusi yang paling baik untuk menangani masalah
ketergantungan terhadap rokok? bahkan anak-anak di bawah umur yang
akan menjadi penerus negeri pun sudah mulai teracuni asap rokok sejak
dalam kandungan... masa depan negeri ini sungguh mengkhawatirkan...
harus terus semangat!!! ganbarimashou!! ^^
On 5/31/11, Lulu Ratna <lu2ratna@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Indonesia 'Worst' in Tobacco Fight
> Dessy Sagita | May 30, 2011
>
>
>
> As countries mark World No Tobacco Day
> today, Indonesia is still struggling to end the deadly addiction among
> its citizens despite overwhelming evidence that smoking is a major
> killer.
>
> Indonesia remains the only country in the Asia-Pacific
> region that has not ratified the World Health Organization's Framework
> Convention on Tobacco Control, which requires its members to ban all
> tobacco advertising, including sponsorships and promotions, and impose
> no-smoking zones.
>
> This has led activists to describe Indonesian
> programs to fight tobacco addiction, especially among young smokers, as
> the "worst in the world."
>
> "Indonesia is a gigantic country, the
> number of smokers is outrageous," said Fuad Baradja, head of public
> education at the Indonesian Smoking Control Foundation (LM3).
>
> "People
> start smoking when they are toddlers. But despite the severity of the
> situation, we still don't have adequate regulations that can address
> these problems properly. Therefore it's safe to say our anti-tobacco
> programs are the worst in the world."
>
> World No Tobacco Day was
> initiated by the WHO in 1987 to encourage people to stop consuming
> tobacco products for at least 24 hours, but so far in Indonesia its
> impact has been limited.
>
> Ministry of Health data shows that more
> than 60 percent of Indonesian men are smokers and more than 43 million
> children live with smokers.
>
> A global youth tobacco survey
> conducted by the WHO in 2006 found that more than 37 percent of
> Indonesian high school and university students smoked, and three out of
> 10 admitted they started before turning 10.
>
> Kartono Muhammad, a
> leading anti-tobacco activist and a former chairman of the Indonesian
> Doctors Association (IDI), said efforts to catch up with neighboring
> countries in terms of curtailing tobacco's harmful impact had thus far
> been ineffective, largely due to a lack of national leadership.
>
> "Unfortunately,
> the efforts are sporadic and they don't reach all parts of Indonesia,"
> he said. "That's because these efforts were initiated by local
> governments while the central government has been idle."
>
> Only
> eight of the 33 provinces and 11 of the more than 400 districts in
> Indonesia have imposed no-smoking zones in public areas and facilities.
>
> Jakarta is one of the provinces that has banned smoking in buildings but the
> regulation has remained largely ignored.
>
> However, the WHO honored Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo on Sunday for his
> commitment to fighting tobacco addiction.
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