Below are the facts about smoking
1. So far, tobacco ranked major cause of preventable death in the world. Tobacco causes one in 10 adult deaths worldwide, and caused 5.4 million deaths in 2006. This means an average of one death every 6.5 seconds. On the prediction of deaths in 2020 will be close to two times the number of deaths at this time if the current cigarette consumption habits continue.
2. In Asia, the World Health Organization (WHO) states, Indonesia ranks third-highest number of smokers who have reached 146.86 million inhabitants. However, until recently Indonesia has not had a child Laws to ban smoking. Due to the absence of strict rules, in a study in four cities: Bandung, Padang, Yogyakarta and Malang in 2004, the prevalence of smokers aged 5-9 years increased dramatically from 0.6 percent (year 1995) to be 2.8 percent (2004) .
3. An estimated 900 million (84 percent) of smokers worldwide live in developing countries or transition economies, including Indonesia. The Tobacco Atlas noted, there are more than 10 million sticks of cigarettes smoked every minute, every day, all over the world by a billion men, and 250 million women. Some 50 percent of total world cigarette consumption is owned China, the United States, Russia, Japan and Indonesia. If this condition continues, the total number of cigarettes smoked per year is 9000 trillion cigarettes in 2025.
4. Increased smoking prevalence was highest in the age interval 15-19 years from 13.7 percent to 24.2 percent or an increase of 77 percent from 1995. According to Global Survey of Tobacco Among Youth in the 1490 junior high school students in Jakarta in 1999, there were 46.7 percent of students who ever smoked and 19 percent of them tried before the age of 10 years. "Teenagers usually begin smoking in their teens or early junior high," said psychologist from the Faculty of Psychology UI Dharmayati Utoyo Lopez.
5. A total of 84.8 million smokers in Indonesia earn less than Rp 20 thousand per day-mandated minimum wage for Jakarta around Rp 38 thousand per day.
6. Smokers in Indonesia 70 percent of them come from poor families.
7. 12.9% of poor families budget for cigarettes and for the rich only 9%.
8. Citing funds of Economics and National Health Survey (SUSENAS), the consumption of poor households on tobacco in Indonesia was ranked second (12.43%) after consumption of rice (19:30%). "It's weird when people increasingly concerned because the price of food rises, consumers actually smoke more and more
9. Poor people in Indonesia to allocate money for cigarettes in the second after buying rice. Removing the money for cigarettes six times more important than education and health.
10. About 50% of lung cancer patients do not know that cigarette smoke is a cause of illness.
11. Of the 12% of primary school children who have never tasted smoked investigated by trial and error. Approximately half of these continue the smoking habit.
12. The amount of cigarette excise tax in Indonesia is still considered too low. Currently, the amount of cigarette tax 37 percent of the price of cigarettes. Compare this with India (72%), Thailand (63%), Japan (61%)
13. A total of 1172 people in Indonesia die every day because of tobacco.
14. 100% of drug addicts are smokers.
3. An estimated 900 million (84 percent) of smokers worldwide live in developing countries or transition economies, including Indonesia. The Tobacco Atlas noted, there are more than 10 million sticks of cigarettes smoked every minute, every day, all over the world by a billion men, and 250 million women. Some 50 percent of total world cigarette consumption is owned China, the United States, Russia, Japan and Indonesia. If this condition continues, the total number of cigarettes smoked per year is 9000 trillion cigarettes in 2025.
4. Increased smoking prevalence was highest in the age interval 15-19 years from 13.7 percent to 24.2 percent or an increase of 77 percent from 1995. According to Global Survey of Tobacco Among Youth in the 1490 junior high school students in Jakarta in 1999, there were 46.7 percent of students who ever smoked and 19 percent of them tried before the age of 10 years. "Teenagers usually begin smoking in their teens or early junior high," said psychologist from the Faculty of Psychology UI Dharmayati Utoyo Lopez.
5. A total of 84.8 million smokers in Indonesia earn less than Rp 20 thousand per day-mandated minimum wage for Jakarta around Rp 38 thousand per day.
6. Smokers in Indonesia 70 percent of them come from poor families.
7. 12.9% of poor families budget for cigarettes and for the rich only 9%.
8. Citing funds of Economics and National Health Survey (SUSENAS), the consumption of poor households on tobacco in Indonesia was ranked second (12.43%) after consumption of rice (19:30%). "It's weird when people increasingly concerned because the price of food rises, consumers actually smoke more and more
9. Poor people in Indonesia to allocate money for cigarettes in the second after buying rice. Removing the money for cigarettes six times more important than education and health.
10. About 50% of lung cancer patients do not know that cigarette smoke is a cause of illness.
11. Of the 12% of primary school children who have never tasted smoked investigated by trial and error. Approximately half of these continue the smoking habit.
12. The amount of cigarette excise tax in Indonesia is still considered too low. Currently, the amount of cigarette tax 37 percent of the price of cigarettes. Compare this with India (72%), Thailand (63%), Japan (61%)
13. A total of 1172 people in Indonesia die every day because of tobacco.
14. 100% of drug addicts are smokers.
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