Tobacco cigar killed a thousands Indonesian every day

Tobacco cigar killed a thousands Indonesian every day

Thousands of Indonesian, students and other variety of peoples went to street of Indonesian cities bring their posters advertised ''tobacco cigar will kill you''. ''Stop tobacco trade''. ''Tobacco is danger for your health''. They show of support to stop smoking in public areas, such as Hospital, offices, bus station, and public transportation , such as bus, train, and air plane, and other public places. They make a convoy to mark the World No Tobacco Day on May 31, 2009.

Fauzi Bowo, the Jakarta governor lead about 2200 students to demo in National Monuments in Central Jakarta. Local leaders and University students leaders lead their convoy in several cities, such as Bandung, West Java, Makassar, South Sulawesi, and several metropolitan and small cities.

Students in Jakarta bring their posters sign advertise ''do not kill your self by smoking''. ''Do not fire your self by smoking. Other students bring a coffin imitation as a symbol ''Smoking victims''.

According to several survey, the Indonesian government get a tobacco tax proxy Rp 50 trillion, but at the same time thousands of peoples get a cancer cause of smoking value of Rp 50 trillion and also Indonesia needs a cost of Rp 150 trillion to save our health from cancer and other diseases related to the tobacco.

Jakarta is one of the cities in Indonesia who has already adopted a local law to prohibit the peoples to have a smoking in public areas. But, mostly public drivers and passenger public transportation such as bus, train and in other public places are still smoking their cigarettes while riding their bus or other public transportation.

According to some scientific evidence has unequivocally established that tobacco consumption and exposure to tobacco smoke causes death, disease and disability. There is clear scientific evidence that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke causes adverse health and developmental conditions for children. Secondhand smoke exposure causes heart disease and lung cancer in nonsmoking adults.

Nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their heart disease risk by 25–30% and their lung cancer risk by 20–30%.There is no risk-free level of secondhand smoke exposure.

Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the world. According to the World Health Organization, each year 5.4 million lives are lost all over the world because of tobacco use.

Indonesia is the third countries after China and India whose their peoples became a tobacco victims. Base on the Indonesian Health Scientist Society survey, about 1.127 Indonesian peoples were killed cause by smoking tobacco cigar in 2007. ''About 67% are men victims,'' said Yayi Suryo Prabandari, a Health scientist from Medicines Department of Gadjah Mada University, Jogjakarta, Central Java, Indonesia.

According to other Scholar Prof.Dr.Sunarto, Indonesia is the only countries in Asia Pacific region which do not sign the tobacco agreement on Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC). Event the agreement were already sign by other 160 countries in the world. This tobacco convention have a strict on tobacco production, to wipe out tobacco advertising in any media, and also state that smoking is prohibit for all children..