Experts call for 'tobacco-free world' and raising legal age for cigarettes

[wa3zrm]

The authors of the Lancet's centerpiece editorial said a so-called tobacco-free world -- in which fewer than 5% of adults smoke -- is "socially desirable, technically feasible and could become politically practical."
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Making tobacco use "out of sight, out of mind and out of fashion -- yet not prohibited" could be achieved only with a "turbo-charged approach," wrote a team of public health experts from Australia, Hong Kong and India. To achieve it, the United Nations, national leaders, and public- and private-sector institutions all would need to collaborate, they wrote.
In addition to governments setting policies such as those assessed by the Institute of Medicine, Lancet's "call to action" called for employers worldwide to ban tobacco use in workplaces; pharmacies across the globe to stop selling tobacco products and stores selling them to be limited and tightly regulated; advertising to end completely; and smoking-cessation efforts to be stepped up and supported by life and health insurers everywhere.

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[Burnsey]

"To achieve it, the United Nations, national leaders, and public- and private-sector institutions all would need to collaborate, they wrote."

Like that's going to happen.......

[psychicferret]

Personally i think we should just let a giant supercomputer to decide are political and sociel policies, that or a dead door mouse, either will be better then any polition

[Snusdog]

Who determines who is an expert these days.......I mean is their an application form and waiting period.........or do you just show up at a convention with a "Hello I'm an Expert" T-shirt and they hand you the mike

And I would like to know the credentials of the experts who certified that the other experts were indeed experts.....its all very perplexing

[SnuserSnuffer]

According to shamans tobacco is the craziest most complex insanenly big very powerful spirit form. The biggest one ever.

[SnuserSnuffer]

humans will not be able to stop it. Lol!

[SnuserSnuffer]

Oh and the shamans want tobacco on their side, because of its power. Which is why they use a ton of it

[TwoFeetShorter]

I always dislike other people telling me what I can or can not do. Tobacco use has been around for about as long as we have figured out fire, and learned that some plants heal us or change our state of mind.
Sure, smoking is unhealthy. So is coffee, although certainly not quite as bad. But I deserve the option to choose myself what I expose my body to.
No one seemed to complain for the years I was in the fire service and I was breathing in burning couches and melting lead paint as I fought structure fires.
Besides, I snus now anyway. If they allowed some sort of advertising I would have quit the smokes a long time ago and made the switch to this much healthier alternative.
TFS

[joserra]

Even the greatest expert has no right to interfere with someone's liberty to do whatever they want with their property (body, resources, etc.), period.

[Snusdog]

One really does wish that the magnificently educated people at The Lancet would call for a prostate cancer free world.
The amount of good people that I know who smoke like trains that I personally know that are at this moment dying at the age of around 50 from prostate cancer is quite alarming.

I would also call for a ban on heart attacks. Its incredible the amount of healthy looking people that simply drop down dead.

Know why? ..... yer gonna die. Simples.

What are we talking about here.........This is all absurd.......more people die each year from Natural Causes than all diseases and disasters combined..........WE MUST PUT AN END TO NATURAL CAUSE DEATH .........THE SILENT KILLER ............So please....... if you are with me.....help me end death by natural causes....Join me in a plate of fried food and a glass of your favorite sugar laden carbonated beverage

[Snusdog]

You know what Dog? I eat and drink what I like....whatever makes me feel good to get through this tough life. I have a cigar a day and a pinch of snuff.....along with snus.....great personal moments. Those moments of pleasure are mine. Nobody elses....mine.....and nobody will take them away from me. It is my right as a human being, after working my testicles off at a job and bringing up a family, to do something.....something.........for me.......before I die.......rather than live like all these folk that live in abstention to eek out another 5-10 mediocre years. There are no hellraisers these days.....everybody conforms to the supposedly healthy norm....healthy norms that change from week to week. Hellraisers that lived life to the full.....and I mean pickled and smoked to hell and back....only lived a little less of a shorter life than the conformist......if at all. One might say....oh...but "they died a horrible painful death". Well.....name me one f**king death that wasnt painful!! "But oh, I'm a good person"......cancer/heart attacks etc. dont care.....in fact none of the worst people Ive ever met in my life are dead yet.....only the good ones.

Ladies and gentlemen.....life is a one way street. It is hard.........and makes very little sense.......make sure you have moments for yourself......three high class hookers in one night should do it.

Good point well put Dog.

Well put brother.......I am right there with ya