Solution of Smoking Problem in Malaysia
1.0 Introduction
Over four million Malaysian are smoker. They spend over RM4 million a day to buy cigarettes. Now, 10 000 people die every year in Malaysia due to the effect of heavy smoking such as heart attack, stroke, cancer and etc.
2.0 Solution
2.1 To increase compound for smoking in prohibited area
The main aspect is to ensure that the law enforcement is conducted accordingly. They must be more pro-active in enforcing the law of prohibit selling cigarettes to under age and prohibition of smoking in the restricted public area. For examples, if convicted for smoking in shopping complex can be compound up to RM10,000 or jailed up two years.
2.2 To add “Stop Smoking Of Clinic”
Every year, government use the budget RM20 billion a year for treatment of cost among smoker in Malaysia. Therefore, Health Department of Malaysia must open more clinic of “Stop Smoking Of Clinic” in town and villages. Hope this problem reduce the total of smoker in Malaysia from time to time.
2.3 Free Toll Line
From 5850 respondens, 71 percent have members smoking and 14 percent also involved with drug. The “free toll line” can show in electronic media such as internet, radio, television and mass media such as newspaper, magazines, brochure and others. Every smoker can get service advice and counseling for stop smoking more efficient.
2.4 Self smoker
Every cigarettes can produce more than 4000 chemical poison matter which are very dangerous and can cause death. Each smoker can use “tips” for stop smoking. For example, take a long breath, drink plenty of water, do something, washing the hand, eat something (chewing gum, fruit, and sweet), take a bath frequently and exercise.
2.5 Good Health Campaign
In Malaysia, 100 000 smoker come to government hospital every year from heart attack, cancer and COPD. Government agency or NGO can support Health Department of Malaysia with good programme through electronic media and mass media. For example, forum, advertisement, and Tobacco Days.
2.6 To increase excise duty
Increament of one cent per cigarette that’s make RM5 to RM10 per box.
3.0 Conclusion
Everyone can stop smoking if they’re willing to change. Besides that, encouragement and support from government agency, NGO and community very important to solve this problem in Malaysia. They must have a target when to stop smoking.
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The tens of thousands of people that quit every day will confirm that there is not only one way. They will however, tell you that there is a universal truth: You have to want to quit.
ReplyDelete1.Quitting 'cold turkey' or stopping completely, once and for all is a common approach to quitting for many smokers.
2.Stop smoking drug Varenicline (Chantix or Champix) is a prescription quit smoking medicine in the form of a pill used to treat smoking addiction.
3.Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is a type of treatment that uses special products to give small, steady doses of nicotine to help stop cravings and relieve symptoms that occur when a person is trying to quit smoking. These products include nicotine gum, nicotine inhaler, nicotine nasal spray, nicotine lozenges, and nicotine patch.1
4.ZYBAN (bupropion hydrochloride sustained-release tablets or bupropion hcl sr) is a prescription medicine to help people quit smoking. Studies have shown that more than one third of people quit smoking for at least 1 month while taking ZYBAN and participating in a patient support program.
5.Some smokers have quit successfully by cutting down gradually, e.g cutting down to five cigarettes a day or less or delaying the first cigarette by an hour each day. Eventually however a point must be reached where smoking is stopped altogether (as in the cold turkey method above).
6.Help in and support in the form of counselling or stop smoking programs should not be underestimated. In fact NRT manufacturers and National Health Service professionals recommend support as an integral part of any attempt to quit smoking.
Eventhough there are various ways to avoid smoking and cure but i think it is depend on the desire of the smokers to stop smoking if they really want to quit and aware about the dangerous of smoking in their life.
ReplyDeleteSmoking is one of the most common forms of recreational drug use.Tobacco smoking is today by far the most popular form of smoking and is practiced by over one billion people in the majority of all human societies.Less common drugs for smoking include cannabis and opium.Some of the substances are classified as hard narcotics, like heroin and crack cocaine , but the use of these is very limited as they are often not commercially available.
ReplyDeleteThe history of smoking dates back to as 5000 BC in shamanistics rituals.Many ancient civilizations , such as the babylonians ,indians and chinese , burnt incense as part of religious rituals , as did the Israelites and the later Catholic and Orthodox Christian churches.Smoking in the Americas probably had its origins in the incense-burning ceremonies of shamans but was later adopted for pleasure or as a social tool.The smoking of tobacco and various other hallucinogenic drugs was used to achieve trances and to come into contact with the spirit world.
Religious leaders have often been prominent among those who considered smoking immoral or outright blasphemous.In 1634 the Patriach of Moscow forbade the sale of tobacco and sentenced men and women who flaunted the ban to have their backs whipped until skin came off their backs.The Western church leader Urban VII likewise condemned smoking in a papal bull of 1590 .despite many concerted efforts , restrictions and bans were almost universally ignored.When James 1 of England , a staunch anti-smoker and the author of a Counterblaste to tobacco , tried to curb the new trend by enforcing a whoopping 4000% tax increase on tobacco in 1604 , it proved a failure, as London had some 7000 tobacco sellers by the early 1600s.Later , scrupulous ruler would realise the futility of smoking bans and instead turned tobacco trade and cultivations into lucrative goverment monopolies.
By the mid-1600s every major civilivation had been introuced to tobacco smoking and in many cases had already assimilated it into the native culture , despite the attempts of many rulers to stamp the practice out harsh penalties of fines. Tobacco , both product and plant , followed the major trade routes to major ports and markets , and then on into the hinterlands.The English language term smoking was coined in the late 1700s , before then the practice was referred to as drinking smoke.
Tobacco and cannabis were used in Sub- Saharan Africa , much like elsewhere in the world, to cofirm social relations but also created entirely new ones. In what is today Congo , a society called Bena Diemba ( People of Cannnabis ) was organized in the late 1800 in Lubuko ( The land Of freindship ) .The Bena Diemba were collectvist pacifists that rejected and herba medicines in favor of cannabis.
The growth remained stable until the American Civil War in 1860s , from which the primary labor force transition from slavery to share cropping.This compounded with a change in demand , lead to the industtrialization of tobacco production with the cigarette.James Bonsack , a cratsman , in 1881 produce a machine to speed the poduction in cigarettes.