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Tobacco forces children to work
In most cases people don't know how ciggarettes are made. It's obvious, we just by the cigarettes for own pleasure, to meet our own needs.Usually people don't understand the whole process, bits of the work include a dismal reality that people don't seem to see. People don't care about all negative consequences. The conditions for induviduals who live close to the tobacco farms are constantly getting worse! According to:https://www.eaglenews.ph/children-risk-health-farming-tobacco-in-indonesia-hrw/ A12-year-old girl who lives in East Java says: "I vomited in the fields and my dad told me to go home and rest. I was sick for two days"
Rich people are forcing unpaid child workers into the cigarette fields, this process leads to big profits for the cigarette industry since they don't need to pay for their young workers. This trick explain how it's possible for the cigarette industries to earn over 10 million USD more than they should do if the children didn't work for them. This is an ongoing problem that's escalating every single year. In some of those places children Could breathe air that's so heavy polluted by nicotine, it would be as if they smoked 50 cigarettes a day.
The cigarette industry violates 12 out of the total 17 sustainability goals according to the United Nations. If the owners of the tobacco industries would provide the fields with edible crops the food would have saturated over 20 million people. If the tobacco fields lose their balance by disappering, then nature and people can begin to start a recovery.
The tobacco crops can, for instance be found in Indonesia, Tanzania, Malawi and Kenya. Pesticides illegal in the west are common in countries were the tobacco grows. The harmful substances flows down in to the ground and reach the groundwater. The groundwater is important for everything that's alive and without clean water many creatures near the tobacco fields die because of the strong and harmful substances. Treatment of sick patients is something that affects more factors than the individuals, it also affects society with health care expenses.
Farmers who work with entertaining tobacco plants need to spend a lot of time making sure that the plants survive while they grows. They often have to by land from the owners of "their" tabaccofield and it's done on credit. That is why people get big debts and it becomes a dark circle when the farmer must buy more land. The Farmers' families members have to work really hard and there is no time for rest. If someone in the family wants to apply for a job somewhere else there is no opportunity to find another work. The children can't go to school because there's no time left to study. When the tobaccoplants grows they must be capable to deliver tobacco world wide. It is really hard for the farmers to handle the presure and another serious thing is that the families can't take care of their own food that are used to feed them since they need more resources to the tobacco plants.
Tindra Alstéus
ZERO SMOKING
2020-02-23
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Now it's time to quit smoking
Covid-19. Corona is spreading through the world and smokers are in danger. Smokers and former smokers have a fourteen times greater risk to become ill of the new Coronavirus Covid-19. In a study in China 78 sick people got followed up under two weeks and the result showed that smokers and ex-smokers have a bigger risk to get ill or even death. In the group smoker are cigarette and e-cigarette included.
Smokers are in a great risk due to that the immune system get weaker of smoking. It gets weaker because of when an active smoker smokes increases them so called Treg-cells. These inhibit the adaptive immune response, leading to inferior protection against infections. Still, former smokers are also in the danger zone and that is because the immune system never get back to how it is for a non-smoker. Though, for an ex-smoker the immune system gets stronger due to that the immune system's disruptive moment is removed. Another thing which also can be a reason why smokers are a large risk group is smoking related diseases like COPD, stroke and cardiovascular disease.
Smoking is as addictive as heroin, so we should not blame the smokers for smoking. But, in the end this can be a motivation to stop smoking. If a smoker wants to decrease the risk to get ill in corona or any other disease is stop smoking the best alternative.
Olivia Caarp
ZERO SMOKING
2020-04-01
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Jonathan Jeppsson (2020). Aftonbladet. Studie: Rökning bakom hög corona-dödlighet. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/9vd2Bp/studie-rokning-bakom-hog-corona-dodlighet.(2020-04-01)
Gilda Hamidi-Nia (2020). SVT. Experterna: "Är du rökare är det ett bra tillfälle att sluta". https://www.svt.se/nyheter/utrikes/experterna-ar-du-rokare-ar-det-har-ett-bra-tillfalle-att-sluta.(2020-04-01)
Tobaksfakta (2020). Tobaksfakta.se. Rökare drabbas hårdare av covid-19. https://tobaksfakta.se/rokare-drabbas-hardare-av-covid-19/(2020-04-01)
Kristina Lindgärde (2018). Vetenskapshälsa. Detta påverkar vårt immunförsvar allra mest. https://www.vetenskaphalsa.se/detta-paverkar-vart-immunforsvar-allra-mest/. (2020-03-30)
Therese Hagberg (2016). Kurera. Slutat röka då händer det här i din kropp just nu. https://kurera.se/slutat-roka-da-hander-det-har-i-din-kropp-just-nu/.(2020-03-30)
Smoking kills your baby
Smoking during pregnancy increases the risk for pregnancy complications. Tobacco-smoke harms babies before and after they are born. Smoking also reduces a woman's chances of getting pregnant. Did you know those facts?
Smoking is still a huge problem in the world. People get addicted to nicotine and tobacco every day and a lot of people get affected by it. Those who get worst affected by the cigarette-smoke are the unborn babies.
Smoking during pregnancy can cause tissue damage in the unborn baby, particularly in the lung and brain, and some studies suggests a link between maternal smoking and cleft lip. Carbon monoxide in tobacco-smoke can keep the developing baby from getting enough oxygen. Tobacco smoke also contains other chemicals that can harm unborn babies.
Mothers who smoke are more likely to deliver their babies early. Preterm delivery is a leading cause of death, disability, and disease among newborns. Smoking during and after pregnancy also increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Babies whose mothers smoke are about three times more likely to die from SIDS.
One in every five babies born to mothers who smoke during pregnancy has low birth weight. Mothers who are exposed to secondhand smoke while pregnant are more likely to have lower birth weight babies. Babies born too small or too early are not as healthy. Babies whose mothers smoke while pregnant or who are exposed to secondhand smoke after birth have weaker lungs than other babies, which increases the risk for many health problems.
It might be harder, even impossible, for a woman who smokes to even get pregnant. And if they manage to get pregnant, the risk of miscarriage is much higher. Studies suggest a relationship between tobacco and miscarriage
Quitting tobacco can be hard, but it is possible. Quitting smoking is one of the most important ways to protect your health and the health of your baby. Quitting early or before pregnancy is best, but it's never too late to quit smoking.
Although, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products containing nicotine (the addictive drug found in tobacco) are not safe to use during pregnancy. Nicotine is a health danger for pregnant women and developing babies and can damage a developing baby's brain and lungs. Also, some of the flavourings used in e-cigarettes may be harmful to a developing baby.
So, think again. Is your addiction so important that it is worth risking the life of another human being?
Elvira Redin
ZERO SMOKING
2020-04-02
Sources:
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). 2018. Smoking During Pregnancy.
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/health_effects/pregnancy/index.htm (2020-04-02)
CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). 2019. Substance Use During Pregnancy.
Smoking, expense to society
A stick with tobacco in it and paper around, nobody could not even predict how it would affect the society and individually. In this articel I'm going to describe how muchit costs our society and what it is that costs.
Scientists has did a inquiry when they investigated in how many procents of the death 2012 in Sweden that was caused by smoking in the age of 30-69years. The study shows that 12% (2,1billions) of people. They also said that Sweden would be smoking free in year 2025. If you compare with how many people who smoked on the 1950's with today, the number have come down but not in the rate the scientists want.
My great grandfather said in an interview that back in the days did you laid everything on cigarettes. Since it was trendy, they didn't think at the consequences. Then if you look at the expense to the society, unfortunately it is about billions in Swedish crowns. The hole smoking part costs around 3,1billions each year for the society.
The healthcare costs around 10billions and further 2billions to take care of the passive smokers. If 5% of the Swedish smokers has laid of smoking the healthcare could save 15billions each year.
Tindra Bruno
ZERO SMOKING
2020-04-02