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Between 2004 and last year,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Malaysian government reported to have spent RM8 million on Tak Nak Merokok – a nationwide anti smoking campaign. Started during Tun Abdullah Badawi premiership, it is a high-powered anti-smoking campaigning aimed at reducing the number of smokers in the country. It achieves dismal successes by any measure.
In rural Sarawak smoking is still prevalent partly due to culture and easy accessibility to tobacco. Smuggled,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], cheap fags can be found everywhere. Among the Penan, kid as young as 5-year old already puffing cigarette and homegrown and made roll-your-own tobacco like an adult. It really taken me by surprised in places like Long Tanyit and Kajang – among the remotest Penan longhouses – in Belaga district.
Before anyone in the room could stop them, eight Amti members began performing a drama about Roro Mendut — a beautiful, sensual woman from Javanese folklore who sold cigarettes she had already lit in order to pay taxes to a local ruler who was trying to woo her. “They dressed in traditional Javanese clothes; they even had a drum for music,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],” Lisda told the Jakarta Globe last month.
One performer, who was playing Roro Mendut, then handed tobacco plants to the government officials, saying they were meant to symbolize the alliance putting its fate in their hands. After the performance ended, the uninvited pro-tobacco group shouted: “Long live the farmers!” Agung Suryanto, Amti’s deputy secretary general, said the performers interrupted the meeting only to deliver a message from the people. But Lisda believed otherwise.
“I think it was like a threat to the government from the group,” she said. “They were not even invited to the meeting, and yet they were given the first chance to speak even before all the government officials.” To be sure, the trend has sparked dissent. After all, smoking is legal for adults,cheap newport cigarettes supplier, and nicotine is known to be one of the hardest addictions to kick. Why should poor people be asked to give up smoking at home when rich people have the right to indulge this harmful vice?
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An HSPH study in the December 2009 issue of the journal Tobacco Control, for example, documents how cigarette fumes can infiltrate the homes of nonsmokers in low-income housing. When nonsmoking residents reported the frequent odor of tobacco smoke from other apartments or hallways,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], tests in their homes subsequently turned up elevated nicotine concentrations,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], according to one of the study’s authors, Jack Spengler, Akira Yamaguchi Professor of Environmental Health and Human Habitation in the Department of Environmental Health.