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This year, the World Health Organization (WHO ) links Snuff on World Day for Women, through the slogan " Gender and snuff: snuff promotion targeting women ." The WHO, the World No Snuff will "focus on the marketing of snuff," underscoring "the need that almost 170 Parties to the WHO Framework Convention for the Control of Snuff ban all advertising, promotion and sponsorship in accordance with its constitution or constitutional principles . " So, are States Parties to the Framework Convention for the Control of FCTC Snuff those words. Since civil society will be remembering and managing this commitment.
The World No Snuff is a unique opportunity to inform the media and public measures to control supply and demand of snuff products recommended by the FCTC and to expose industry strategies to promote tobacco smoking in women and its consequences. Here are some details you supplied already the Tobacco-Free Kids Campaign TFK: • Women constitute 20% of the more than 1 billion smokers worldwide.
• On average, 22% of women in developed countries are daily smokers and, on average, 9% of women in developing countries smoke.
• The information gathered in 151 countries indicates that approximately 7% of adolescent girls smoke cigarettes, compared with 12% of teenage boys. In some countries, smoking almost as many girls as boys.
• The tobacco industry targets women and girls with aggressive and seductive ads that use the concepts of independence, emancipation, sex appeal, thinness, glamor and beauty.
• Research indicates that targeted marketing affects snuff use rates among young women.
• Deaths among women aged 20 years or more may increase from 1.5 million in 2004 to 2.5 million in 2030, almost 75% of estimated deaths will occur in low and middle income.
• Female smokers are at greater risk of developing cervical cancer, osteoporosis and other diseases of the reproductive system, including spontaneous abortions, stillbirths, infertility, have children with low birth weight and premature menopause painful periods.
• Female smokers are at increased risk of stroke, bleeding in the membranes surrounding the brain, hardening of the arteries and death from aortic aneurysm.
• Around the world approximately one third of adults regularly exposed to secondhand smoke. The only second-hand smoke causes about 600,000 premature deaths per year worldwide.
Finally TFK recommends: " should take strong measures to protect women against the dangers of snuff consumption and exposure to secondhand smoke. The snuff control policies such as smoke-free environments, the prohibitions on the marketing of snuff, graphic warning labels and high taxes on snuff, snuff reduce consumption and save the lives of women around the world . "
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