Cases of Child Smoking in Indonesia
Sunday, January 1, 2012
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In the
Western world there's been a huge crackdown on tobacco. Here in Australia of
course, we're about to see the start of plain packaging. While big tobacco's
market shrinks here and elsewhere, it's refocusing its sales efforts on
developing countries like Indonesia. The result is a massive increase in
smoking rates, including among children. Indonesia correspondent Matt Brown
reports on the plight of one little boy who’s found it impossible to kick the
habit.
abdel is
just eight years old, but he's already been smoking for four years.
A survey
released in September this year, supported by World Health Organization and US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, found Indonesian men rank as the
world's top smokers. Two-thirds of Indonesian males over 15 years old smoke.
The
proportion of children who regularly smoke is rising. There's been a seven-fold
increase in the number of young children smoking in less than a decade. And a
quarter of Indonesian teenagers is a regular smoker.
Law
enforcements are weak in Indonesia. There is no minimum age for buying
cigarettes. And there is no education on the danger of smoking.
Indonesia is
among a tiny handful of countries, which include North Korea and Zimbabwe, that
has failed to sign the WHO's tobacco treaty.
The treaty
restricts advertising, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products and bans
sales of cigarettes to minors.
In the code
of ethics, there shouldn't be any tobacco ads within 100 m of school. But in
reality, advertisements proliferating on billboards - which are plenty across
the nation - portray smoking as a modern, hip activity that should be adopted
by youngsters.
"Children
are supposed to go to school, study and play. Instead, they work in an industry
which produces cigarettes. Then they start smoking themselves and see it as
nothing out of the ordinary."
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