Tobacco Smoking Flashcards
(27 cards)
- major preventable cause of premature death and disease worldwide
- kills more than 8 million people each year.
- Around 80% of the world’s 1.1 billion smokers live in low- and middle-income countries.
Tobacco Smoking
Any combustible tobacco product that is designed to be smoked – other than cigarettes
Cigars, cigarillos, and other combustible products (excluding cigarettes)
Electronic and/or battery-operated devices designed to deliver an inhaled dose of nicotine or other substances
E-cigarettes and other ENDS products
A single or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco or other products in which the vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin
Hookah, shisha, and water pipes
Including roll your own (RYO) tobacco for hand rolling cigarettes and pipe tobacco.
Loose tobacco leaf
Tobacco products that are used by means other than smoking, such as chewing, sniffing, or placing between the teeth and gum.
Smokeless tobacco products
Harmful Chemical of Tobacco
Toluene Carbon Monoxide Cadmium Arsenic Ammonia Radon Hexamine Methane Tar Acetone Nicotine Polonium-210 Methanol Hydrogen Cyanide Butane
consuming tobacco products directly
Firsthand smoke
smoke that comes from the burning end of a cigarette, cigar or pipe
Secondhand smoke
invisible tobacco “dust” (or chemical) that settles in the environment and stays there even after a cigarette has been put out
Thirdhand smoke
Economic Impact of Tobacco
- Although government revenue from tobacco taxes is about PhP23 billion annually
- Economic losses due to productivity and health care costs of the top 4 leading NCDs (CA, CVD, COPD and Diabetes) are conservatively estimated at PhP 149 billion annually.
Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease
- Even people who smoke fewer than five cigarettes a day can have early signs of cardiovascular disease.
- Smoking damages blood vessels and can make them thicken and grow narrower.
Smoking and Respiratory Disease
- Tobacco smoke can trigger an attack or make an attack worse.
- Smoking causes about 80% (or 8 out of 10) of all deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
- Smokers are 12 to 13 times more likely to die from COPD than nonsmokers.
Smoking and Cancer
- Cigarette smoking causes most cases of lung cancer.
- Smoking can cause cancer almost anywhere in your body.
- Smoking also increases the risk of dying from cancer and other diseases in cancer patients and survivors.
Number of Current Smokers in 2013
1 in 4 adults
Cigarette per day (MEN)
11.3 cigarettes per day
Cigarette per day (WOMEN)
7.0 cigarettes per day
Average age of initiation of smoking among ever daily smokers
o -17.4 years for men
o -19.1 years for women
No. of Filipino Workers Exposed to Secondhand Smoke at Work (2009)
36.9% (6.1 million)
Progress in Reducing Tobacco Use in the Philippines based on GATS
- increase the tax on tobacco products on an incremental basis
- development and implementation by LGU of tobacco ordinances compliant with the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)
- development of a recognition system “Red Orchid Awards for 100% Tobacco Free Environment” for LGU, government agencies and hospitals complying with FCTC obligations
- placement of graphic health information on billboards, tarpaulins, and posters
- development and implementation of the National Tobacco Control Strategy (2011-2016) to accelerate implementation of FCTC
- implementation of the total prohibition of tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship by local government units.
- Promotion of a healthful environment
- Provision of information to the public on health risks associated with cigarette smoking and tobacco use
- Regulation and subsequent banning of all tobacco advertisements and sponsorships
- Regulation of placing health warning labels on tobacco products
- Prohibition of the sale of tobacco products to minors
- Provision of assistance and encouragement for Filipino tobacco farmers to cultivate alternative agricultural crops to prevent economic dislocation
- Creation of an Interagency Committee on Tobacco (IAC‐Tobacco) to oversee the implementation of the provisions of this Act.
The Tobacco Regulation Act of 2003 (Republic Act 9211)
- It was signed into law on December 12, 2012 in Malacañang (under the Aquino administration)
- It helps finance the Universal Health Care program of the government
The Sin Tax Reform Law (Republic Act 10351)
• It was signed into law on July 15, 2014.
• The purposes of the law are to:
- Include graphic health warnings that effectively warn of the devastating effects of tobacco use and exposure to second‐hand smoke
- Remove misleading or deceptive numbers or descriptors like “low tar”, “light”, “ultralights” or “mild” which convey or tend to convey that a product or variant is healthier, less harmful or safer
The Graphic Health Warnings Law (Republic Act 10643)
- Part of Youth Smoking Prevention Program
- This order prohibits smoking and the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products inside public and private school campuses, buildings, offices, including the premises and buildings of the division, regional and national offices.
Department of Education Department Order No. 33 s 2003
