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| Public release date: 22-Jan-2010 | Contact: David Sampson | david.sampson@cancer.org | American Cancer Society |
Global tobacco report outlines 21 challenges for 21st century
ATLANTA – January 22, 2010 –A new American Cancer Society report outlines 21 challenges and needs for global tobacco control,
covering the wide range of issues to be addressed and expertise needed to reduce the rising tide of tobacco use worldwide,
particularly in the low- and middle-income nations that are the target of the multinational tobacco industry. The report is published
early online and will appear in the January/February issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
The report's authors, led by Thomas Glynn, PhD, American Cancer Society director of Cancer Science and Trends, point out that
the globalization of tobacco began with the European exploration of the New World more than 500 years ago. But it is only in the past
50 years that public health has responded to the death, disease, and economic disruption caused by tobacco use. Tobacco now has
at least 1.3 billion users and kills more than 14,500 people every day, while debilitating and sickening many times that number. The
report lists activities, policies, and interventions that must be increased or in some cases decreased in order to be successful in
reducing the rising tide of tobacco use.
covering the wide range of issues to be addressed and expertise needed to reduce the rising tide of tobacco use worldwide,
particularly in the low- and middle-income nations that are the target of the multinational tobacco industry. The report is published
early online and will appear in the January/February issue of CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.
The report's authors, led by Thomas Glynn, PhD, American Cancer Society director of Cancer Science and Trends, point out that
the globalization of tobacco began with the European exploration of the New World more than 500 years ago. But it is only in the past
50 years that public health has responded to the death, disease, and economic disruption caused by tobacco use. Tobacco now has
at least 1.3 billion users and kills more than 14,500 people every day, while debilitating and sickening many times that number. The
report lists activities, policies, and interventions that must be increased or in some cases decreased in order to be successful in
reducing the rising tide of tobacco use.
INCREASE CHALLENGES
•Increase support for and adherence to the
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(FCTC): The report calls this the single most
important action in the effort to eliminate tobacco-
related death and disease, saying all governments
should be encouraged to join the more than 165
nations who already have ratified the treaty, and
that those who have joined the Framework should
faithfully implement it.
•Increase tobacco taxes: Raising tobacco taxes is
considered perhaps the most effective intervention
to reduce tobacco use.
•Increase access to comprehensive treatment for
tobacco dependence: With more than 1.3 billion
•Increase support for and adherence to the
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
(FCTC): The report calls this the single most
important action in the effort to eliminate tobacco-
related death and disease, saying all governments
should be encouraged to join the more than 165
nations who already have ratified the treaty, and
that those who have joined the Framework should
faithfully implement it.
•Increase tobacco taxes: Raising tobacco taxes is
considered perhaps the most effective intervention
to reduce tobacco use.
•Increase access to comprehensive treatment for
tobacco dependence: With more than 1.3 billion
tobacco users in the world today, if only half of them wished to stop their tobacco use, there would be need for access to tobacco
dependence treatment for greater than 650 million tobacco users. Furthermore, the World Bank has estimated that more than 180
million lives could be saved in just the first half of this century if the prevalence of current tobacco users were cut in half by 2020, and
providing access to adequate treatment would be a cornerstone of that approach.
•Increase media-based tobacco counter-marketing campaigns: Although the tobacco industry will always far outspend tobacco
control advocates, novel, entertaining, cutting-edge tobacco counter-marketing campaigns have been shown to attract attention and
support far beyond the amount of funds spent and to have a direct effect on reducing tobacco use.
•Increase regulation of all tobacco products: Tobacco is the most unregulated consumer product on the market today, exempt from
important basic consumer protections, such as ingredient disclosure, product testing, accurate labeling, and restrictions on
marketing to children.
•Increase health warnings on tobacco packaging: As warnings become more graphic, tobacco users are more likely to pay attention
to them.
•Increase availability of tobacco health/economic information to the general public: Many tobacco users, policymakers, and even
health care professionals are largely unaware, or only vaguely aware, of the other cancers, heart disease, lung disease, pre– and
postnatal conditions, etc that are caused by tobacco use.
•Increase primacy of health over commerce in trade agreements: Successful arguments have been made that excluding tobacco
from trade agreements is compatible with international law, which provides for other harmful products such as landmines to be
exempted. In addition, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has declared that human health is an important consideration and that if
necessary, governments may "put aside WTO commitments" to protect human life.
•Increase basic biomedical and applied tobacco control research
•Increase the extent and accuracy of tobacco epidemiologic and surveillance data
•Increase litigation aimed at the tobacco industry
DECREASE CHALLENGES
•Decrease tobacco use by physicians and other health care providers: Many physicians and health care providers continue to use
tobacco, with use reported to be as high as 50% or more in some countries
•Decrease targeting of women: The WHO has estimated that the prevalence of smoking among women worldwide will be 20% by
2025, compared with the 12% of the world's women who currently smoke.
•Decrease exposure to secondhand smoke: Providing smoke-free environments has been proven to not only protect nonsmokers,
but also encourage smokers to quit and focus greater attention on the need for tobacco control measures.
•Decrease illicit trade and smuggling
•Decrease duty-free and reduced–cost sales of tobacco
•Decrease tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship
•Decrease misleading tobacco product claims/descriptors
•Decrease targeting of youth
•Decrease subsidies for tobacco production
•Decrease youth access to tobacco
The report says there are certainly many other challenges not discussed in the report and that, while "resources… will never be
enough to address all of these challenges," actions taken with the resources currently available will have a significant effect on global
health. Finally, the report points to an issue it says rises above all others when considering the potential to reverse the global
tobacco epidemic: the need for skilled, dedicated people to address the issues outlined in the report.
###
Article: "The Globalization of Tobacco Use: 21 Challenges for the 21st Century," Thomas Glynn, PhD, John R. Seffrin, PhD, Otis W.
Brawley, MD, Nathan Grey, MPH, H. Ross CA Cancer J Clin 2010 (DOI 10.3322/caac.20052).
dependence treatment for greater than 650 million tobacco users. Furthermore, the World Bank has estimated that more than 180
million lives could be saved in just the first half of this century if the prevalence of current tobacco users were cut in half by 2020, and
providing access to adequate treatment would be a cornerstone of that approach.
•Increase media-based tobacco counter-marketing campaigns: Although the tobacco industry will always far outspend tobacco
control advocates, novel, entertaining, cutting-edge tobacco counter-marketing campaigns have been shown to attract attention and
support far beyond the amount of funds spent and to have a direct effect on reducing tobacco use.
•Increase regulation of all tobacco products: Tobacco is the most unregulated consumer product on the market today, exempt from
important basic consumer protections, such as ingredient disclosure, product testing, accurate labeling, and restrictions on
marketing to children.
•Increase health warnings on tobacco packaging: As warnings become more graphic, tobacco users are more likely to pay attention
to them.
•Increase availability of tobacco health/economic information to the general public: Many tobacco users, policymakers, and even
health care professionals are largely unaware, or only vaguely aware, of the other cancers, heart disease, lung disease, pre– and
postnatal conditions, etc that are caused by tobacco use.
•Increase primacy of health over commerce in trade agreements: Successful arguments have been made that excluding tobacco
from trade agreements is compatible with international law, which provides for other harmful products such as landmines to be
exempted. In addition, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has declared that human health is an important consideration and that if
necessary, governments may "put aside WTO commitments" to protect human life.
•Increase basic biomedical and applied tobacco control research
•Increase the extent and accuracy of tobacco epidemiologic and surveillance data
•Increase litigation aimed at the tobacco industry
DECREASE CHALLENGES
•Decrease tobacco use by physicians and other health care providers: Many physicians and health care providers continue to use
tobacco, with use reported to be as high as 50% or more in some countries
•Decrease targeting of women: The WHO has estimated that the prevalence of smoking among women worldwide will be 20% by
2025, compared with the 12% of the world's women who currently smoke.
•Decrease exposure to secondhand smoke: Providing smoke-free environments has been proven to not only protect nonsmokers,
but also encourage smokers to quit and focus greater attention on the need for tobacco control measures.
•Decrease illicit trade and smuggling
•Decrease duty-free and reduced–cost sales of tobacco
•Decrease tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship
•Decrease misleading tobacco product claims/descriptors
•Decrease targeting of youth
•Decrease subsidies for tobacco production
•Decrease youth access to tobacco
The report says there are certainly many other challenges not discussed in the report and that, while "resources… will never be
enough to address all of these challenges," actions taken with the resources currently available will have a significant effect on global
health. Finally, the report points to an issue it says rises above all others when considering the potential to reverse the global
tobacco epidemic: the need for skilled, dedicated people to address the issues outlined in the report.
###
Article: "The Globalization of Tobacco Use: 21 Challenges for the 21st Century," Thomas Glynn, PhD, John R. Seffrin, PhD, Otis W.
Brawley, MD, Nathan Grey, MPH, H. Ross CA Cancer J Clin 2010 (DOI 10.3322/caac.20052).
USA / World News:
Supreme Court upholds smoking ban
Kan. court rules Newton smoking ordinance applies to VFW, Legion
| By Cristina Janney | Newton Kansan | Posted Mar 06, 2010 @ 08:00 AM |
NEWTON — The Kansas Supreme Court issued a decision Friday upholding Newton’s smoking ban.
The Whitesell-Finnel Post No. 971 Veterans of Foreign Wards and Wayne G. Austin American Legion Post No. 2, both of Newton,
filed a lawsuit Dec. 20, 2007, against the city’s smoking ban.
The Whitesell-Finnel Post No. 971 Veterans of Foreign Wards and Wayne G. Austin American Legion Post No. 2, both of Newton,
filed a lawsuit Dec. 20, 2007, against the city’s smoking ban.
The two fraternal organizations argued the law was
unconstitutional under the Fourth and 14th
amendments. They also alleged they should be
exempt from the ordinance as private clubs.
unconstitutional under the Fourth and 14th
amendments. They also alleged they should be
exempt from the ordinance as private clubs.
The lower court issued a summary judgment in favor of the city, saying the ordinance did not violate the constitutional rights of the
VFW or American Legion and their members. The lower court also ruled the lawsuit was preemptive in that neither organization had
been cited under the ordinance.
The ordinance was passed on Nov. 13, 2007.
It banned smoking in all public places and all enclosed places of employment in Newton. The VFW’s lawsuit was filed by Gary Loyd
on Dec. 20, 2007. Loyd was later taken off the case and the VFW and American Legion added.
The Supreme Court, in its decision Friday, said the ordinance did not violate the organizations’ members’ rights to due process
under the 14th Amendment or the right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment as asserted by the VFW and American Legion.
“Plaintiffs’ argument is apparently based on the simplistic notion that a private organization with a private clubhouse has a
constitutional right to privacy,” the court said in its judgment. ... “Upon the merits of the argument, the city pointed out that a right to
privacy action requires the existence of a fundamental privacy interest and that no court, to date, had recognized the smoking of
tobacco as a fundamental right.”
In summary, the court noted the city acknowledged some of the VFW and American Legion’s premises might not fall within the
ordinance’s definitions of public places or public places of employment.
“However, as appellants themselves have related, a portion of their buildings are occasionally open to the public and operated by
paid employees, i.e., would be covered by the ordinance,” the judgment said.
Don Typer, VFW commander, had not read the judgment as of Friday and said he did not want to comment until he had a chance to
talk to the post’s attorney.
Bob Myers, city attorney was unable to be reached as of press time.
VFW or American Legion and their members. The lower court also ruled the lawsuit was preemptive in that neither organization had
been cited under the ordinance.
The ordinance was passed on Nov. 13, 2007.
It banned smoking in all public places and all enclosed places of employment in Newton. The VFW’s lawsuit was filed by Gary Loyd
on Dec. 20, 2007. Loyd was later taken off the case and the VFW and American Legion added.
The Supreme Court, in its decision Friday, said the ordinance did not violate the organizations’ members’ rights to due process
under the 14th Amendment or the right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment as asserted by the VFW and American Legion.
“Plaintiffs’ argument is apparently based on the simplistic notion that a private organization with a private clubhouse has a
constitutional right to privacy,” the court said in its judgment. ... “Upon the merits of the argument, the city pointed out that a right to
privacy action requires the existence of a fundamental privacy interest and that no court, to date, had recognized the smoking of
tobacco as a fundamental right.”
In summary, the court noted the city acknowledged some of the VFW and American Legion’s premises might not fall within the
ordinance’s definitions of public places or public places of employment.
“However, as appellants themselves have related, a portion of their buildings are occasionally open to the public and operated by
paid employees, i.e., would be covered by the ordinance,” the judgment said.
Don Typer, VFW commander, had not read the judgment as of Friday and said he did not want to comment until he had a chance to
talk to the post’s attorney.
Bob Myers, city attorney was unable to be reached as of press time.
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