ASEAN anti-tobacco

Representatives of ASEAN countries have approved petitions to governments to ratify the ban on smoking in workplaces and public places.

At the conference of the UN Framework Convention on global tobacco control taking place in Bangkok (Thailand), participants also discussed the content of a number of new treaties to tighten anti-trafficking laws. tobacco products and ban tobacco advertising in the block.

According to the ASEAN Tobacco Control Alliance, 10% of the 1.25 billion smokers in the world are living in ASEAN, and 1 million people die from drug-related diseases each year in the region. leaves. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization said tobacco killed 5.4 million people in 2006, or one every 6.5 seconds died of tobacco-induced disease. Following that momentum, in the 21st century, 1 billion people will die from tobacco if governments do not have strong measures to reduce the number of drug addicts.

A cinematographer in front of the screen reported the number of people dying of cigarettes before the Bangkok conference building (Photo: Reuters)

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