Essay On Control Of Tobacco

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Tobacco has been a global issue for many years. Not only causing serious illness and death, tobacco also causes indirect economic loss in some countries such as the decreasing of health and productivity which then followed by the increasing of medical expenses. The World Bank has recorded around US$ 200 billion global net loss annually caused by tobacco which is far outweigh the benefit from the tobacco production itself. The condition is even worse in the developing countries to which most of tobacco users belong. In the developing countries, most of the tobacco users are middle to low income class which mostly are the male workers. The worst and most happening scenario is that they consume tobacco, they got serious illness, they lost their …show more content…

World Health Organization, through the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), acts as the umbrella organization for the countries to control the consumption and promotional activities of tobacco products. There have been numbers of policies and provisions set under the FCTC to control the use of tobacco, one of which is the introduction of plain packaging for tobacco …show more content…

This regulation was issued as the effort of the government to reduce and limit the distribution of tobacco products within the country especially cigarettes. Came in to force on the first of December 2012, the act regulates that all the cigarettes and other tobacco products sold in the country have to be put within a homogenous standardized plain packaging. No promotional image, slogan, and trademarks such as color and logo shall be allowed in the packaging as mentioned in the Act

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