by According to the World Health Organization, Vapes threatens to reverse progress in smoking control.
Officials who spoke at the world conference on tobacco control in Dublin said that the efforts were at a standstill when it came to ending tobacco users, fighting in the media for the dangers and tabacco products to impose higher taxes. Young people were particularly vulnerable, added.
The countries should consider expanding the graphic health warnings already required for cigarette packages on vapes or e-cigarettes, heated tobacco products and nicotine bags.
In many countries, tobacco products have become more affordable in the past ten years, according to the report, although a WHO recommendation that cigarettes should be taxed at 75%. While cigarettes became less affordable in 46 countries, they became more affordable in 42 other, including 23 countries with low or medium income.
In 133 countries, vapes and similar devices are now regulated in any way – however, no regulations apply from only eight in 2007. 62 countries. The extent of the regulation varies, whereby almost 90% of the wealthier countries regulate or prohibit sales compared to 66% of the funds and only 27% of the poor countries.
In Great Britain, disposable vapes were banned this month to prevent young people from using them and for environmental reasons.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the general director, said: “We have a lot of successes twenty years since the introduction of the WHO framework convention for tobacco control, but the tobacco industry is developing further and we also have to.”
The report shows nicotine bags and heated tobacco products and vapes as examples of new products. Dr. Rüdiger Krech, the director of WHO’s health promotion, said that they were “marketed aggressively in a way that undermining hard -fought health growth”.
He said that the national supervisory authorities do not have to do with a rush of “thousands” of new products, which was an attempt by tobacco companies to avert the attention from their “big business” of the traditional tobacco.
However, he added that it was “extremely important to regulate these new products because they attract children and young people to actually use nicotine, and that is with the addiction that he said”, what he said would lead to tobacco use. Data is not available for all countries, but surveys indicate that about 6% of children between the ages of 13 and 15 use e-cigarettes.
The WHO reports on global tobacco epidemic focuses on six tobacco control measures and rate in which you have implemented it.
This includes taxation, the introduction of smoke -free air laws and offering smokers who offer help with termination. Further measures include monitoring guidelines for tobacco consumption and prevention, prohibitions on tobacco advertising and sponsorship as well as the warning of people about the dangers of pack labels and information campaigns.
Since 2007, 155 countries have carried out at least one of the six measures at the “Best Practice” level, as it was found in the report that four country brazil, Mauritius, the Netherlands and the Turkey-The Turkey The Full Package are implemented.
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However, 40 countries have no measure at the best practice level, and more than 30 countries still allow cigarettes to be sold without a mandatory health warning. This means that billions of people remain unprotected by the negative effects of tobacco, which claims that it kills more than 7 million people a year, the report warned.
Alison Cox, director of politics and advocacy at the NCD [non-communicable disease] Alliance said: “It is clear that there is still a long way to reduce the many unnecessary, tobacco -related illnesses and premature deaths that still occur worldwide.
“Increasing taxes is one of the most effective measures that offer governments a triple victory for reducing tobacco consumption, saving life and health costs and increasing urgently needed income.”
