Don't remain indifferent to the tobacco and cause commonly and

Don't remain indifferent to the tobacco and cause commonly and defend the disaster
The ones that opened in Sydney of Australia on October 7 had already lowered the curtain at the Asian-Pacific tobacco or health meeting on the ninth, China that and the meeting is released contrasts the research report with tobacco of other countries and still alarms the heart. This research report claims, 13 brand cigarettes in China contain heavy metal compositions such as lead, arsenic, cadmium,etc., its content produces more than 3 times the most more superbly than Canada produces cigarettes. This research group main member, Canadian Professor Fang, university Jeffrey of Waterloo warn, Chinese endanger knowing little about to the tobacco, if does not take the effective measure, China will fall into an unprecedented public health disaster quickly.

Just returned to Center for Disease Prevention and Control of China of Beijing and accused of researcher Jiang Yuan, Deputy Director of cigarette office, to say when being interviewed by staff reporter a few days ago after participating in the conference, this research and world accuse of the sincere advice that the cigarette expert sends out, should cause compatriots to alarm. As popular most serious country of tobacco, our country must take action immediately, launch strong accusing of the cigarette action.

The domestic smoke has included the heavy metal and had already been found more than 10 years ago

According to the introduction of Jiang Yuan, the international tobacco by name of above-mentioned research controls the policy to assess the project, involve more than 80 items and accuse of cigarettes to study, the researchers who participate in this project come from more than 20 countries such as China, U.S.A., Canada, Australia, mainly assess the influence on accusing of cigarette policy that " the tobacco controls the frame convention " of World Health Organization.

According to this research report, from 2005 to 2006, 13 cigarette brands of China accepted and sampled detection. Measure to find, the content of Chinese cigarette brand chromium is 0.55 micrograms /gram on average, the content of arsenic is 0.78 micrograms /gram on average, the content of cadmium is 3.24 micrograms /gram on average, the plumbous content is 2.54 micrograms /gram on average. Except chromium, the content of 3 kinds of other heavy metal is prominent 2 times higher 3 times than the Canadian cigarette.

Jiang Yuan says, this is not a new research. " the tobacco will be controlled " the network edition of the magazine will be issued " in publish by Britain already most 2009 such as content in research report. Put out at the Asian-Pacific tobacco or health meeting once again this time, honour an agreement for further promoting accusing of cigarettes. Carry on the tobacco of composition content of Chinese cigarette heavy metal and other countries than to research, not also already been the first time. More than 10 years ago, scholars carried on cigarette composition content and American, Japanese cigarette of heavy metal which Shanghai and other places produced than to research in Shanghai. The result reveals, Shanghai produces the plumbous content of cigarettes higher than American cigarette more than 10 times, it is 4.5 times higher than the Japanese cigarette.

The heavy metal is one kind in cigarette numerous harmful things

The epidemiology materials reveal, heavy metal such as lead, arsenic, cadmium have clear health to endanger to the human body. It is mainly shown as: The lead is apt to cause anaemia, nervous system and digestive system to damage; Arsenic can cause nerve problems, skin mucous membrane to damage, carcinogenic; Cadmium can cause renal functions of people to damage.

Jiang Yuan points out, the heavy metal is one kind in numerous harmful things found in the cigarette. Contain the chemical material of 4000 multi-type in the tobacco, 58 kinds among them have already been proved carcinogen by the conclusive evidence. This is too why the whole world accuses of cigarettes with strength nowadays.

It is reported, it is expressed that the tobacco industry of our country responds this result of study after being announced, have not still issued the heavy metal market access standard to the whole cigarette at present. There is not this standard China, do not have in the world.

Jiang Yuan says in the contracting party, our country is World Health Organization " the tobacco controls the frame convention ", according to the requirement, various are harmful to the composition to measure and announce the tobacco. All the time, the relevant detection of the tobacco of our country has not been gone on by the quality supervision department, and measure by tobacco trade. This kind is " produced in and examined by oneself " Without measuring the practice of the result publicly, is unfavorable to the harmful to tobacco composition to supervise, also influence the public right of being in know, should change as soon as possible.

It is not the sensationalism that the tobacco causes commonly and defends the disaster

Jiang Yuan claims, expert of this research project comments " Chinese endanger knowing little about to the tobacco " Apt. In recent years, on compatriot to cognitive state that tobacco endanger, country, Center for Disease Prevention and Control of China, accuse of the intersection of cigarette and office launch, survey and study while being a series of. The result shows, the people of our country are extremely scarce to the cognition that the tobacco endangers seriously, the medical worker cognitive level is extremely limited too.

It is introduced, in recent years, reveal in some area investigations to smoker of our country, know it is 68.1% and 53.0% respectively that smoking can cause smoker and passive smoker to suffer from the proportion of lung cancer, know that smoking can lead to the fact likewise harmful person's proportion of the apoplexy, impotence and low tar cigarette is about 16%~17%; The doctor -oriented investigation shows, know that the proportion of persons who can cause heart disease is 67% to smoke voluntarily, know the proportion of persons who can cause heart disease of passive smoking is 53%, know the proportion of persons who can cause sudden infant death syndrome of passive smoking is 21%.

Jiang Yuan points out, our country smokes the number exceeds 300 million, the number of people of passive smoking is up to 540 million, the intersection of world and most large the intersection of tobacco and injured country, smoker have give up smoking accounting for 16% only of the will at the same time. At present, the smoking rate of developed country and peripheral developing country of our country is all dropping, among them, South Korea adult man smoke rate than drop half before the 20 year, and our country smoke crowd expand also. Nearly there are 15 million teenagers smokers now, try smokers without less than 40 million peopling. Teenagers try the smoking rate and the smoking rate rise year by year now, beginning to smoke shows a tendency to become younger at age, women smoking rate is hastening and increasing too. It is estimated by 2030, the smoker of our country will increase to 430 million people.

Ginger wall warns and says, only adopt the effective accusing of smoke tactics of science, our country might not avoid falling into an unprecedented public health disaster.



Don't remain indifferent to the tobacco and cause commonly and defend the disaster