new WHO report to offer a road map to fight tobacco use

The WHO published a report on the tobacco usage around the world. The latest statistics shows that the US and Canada's consumption has reduced. The developing countries with the increasing earning capacity of the youth and women are a lucrative market. The spokes persons from the top market brands seem to say that they are targeting the already smoking adult population with increased spending power to shift from local brands to the international brands. Of the total cigarettes consumed across countries, China outnumbered all other countries while India was at the 8th place. With this report published, it would be very important to see the counter measures taken by the governments of the nations that have a rising consumption levels. The Indian organisation for curbing tobacco usage is pushing for ban of smoking at any work place, including restaurants and pubs. It intends to prevent workers suffering from passive smoking due to the working environment. While it is a good move in my personal opinion, I seriously wonder if it will come true. Imagine a pub with a no-smoking banner! I think a good advertising campaign against smoking being cool or stylish would do much good and prevent more people taking to smoking.

A more pressing and important matter from my perspective is food contamination from pesticides and insecticides; portable water pollution and air pollution. We need more research and statistics in this matter. It's vital we take steps to curb this in order to have a future generation. This also concerns every human being than just a subset and therefore I feel it's all the more important to address these issues.