HEALTH &

FITNESS-
SMOKING
Lydia Ling Huong
P(BC)/ MT/ BI
JULAI INTAKE 2008
 INTRODUCTION
• One person dies every 5 minutes from
smoking related diseases.

• A bad habit which is an action of

breathing smoke into the mouth or
lungs from burning tobacco, such as
cigarettes.
• Cause hazards especially to health.

• Government had recently

implemented the policy of curbing the
problem by placing Pictorial Health
Warnings (PHW) on cigarette packs.
HAZARDS OF SMOKING TO HEALTH
• Leads to many fatal diseases such as lung
cancer, heart diseases, stroke, chronic
lung diseases, mouth and gum diseases,
ulcer, other cardiovascular diseases and
infertility.

• Tobacco smoke contains a substance

called nicotine, a poisonous alkoid.
• Contains about 4000 chemicals which
when heated produce a lot of substances
that cause irrepairable damages to
health.

• Constrict the blood vessels, which in turn

cause high blood pressure.

• Raise our heart rate which adds extra

stress on our heart.
• Does not only affect the heart, but
every part of our circulatory system.

• Our blood will become thicker and

stickier, further taxing the heart.
 FIRST MEASURE: Placing Pictorial Health
Warnings (PHW) on cigarette packs

• Since 1 of January 2009, the Malaysian

government had decided to place
graphic images on the cigarette packs.

• Reduce the harm caused by tobacco use

and inform the smokers about the
health effects of smoking to enable
them to quit smoking.
• The six images used
for the Malaysian
PHW depict lung,
throat and mouth
cancer, foot
gangrene,
miscarriage and a
premature baby.
• (Health messages on
cigarette packs) Increase
awareness among the main
target group-the smokers
and able to deliver
information directly to them.
• Understand how serious the
diseases caused by smoking
are and how likely they are to
get them.
• Help to push the smokers to change their
attitude and practice due to the emotions
of fear, detest, anger, sad and regret.
• Images should be vivid, clear and specific
which could be understood even without
the text.
• The pictures on the front of the cigarette
packs must cover 40% of the surface,
while the ones shown on the back must
be 60% in size.
 SURVEY IN SINGAPORE
(YEAR 2004)- RESULT OF
SEEING THE HEALTH WARNINGS
• 71% of affected smokers: Knew more
about the health effects of smoking.
• 28% of affected smokers: They smoked
less.
• 12% of affected smokers: Avoided
smoking in front of pregnant women.
• 14% of affected smokers: Made it a
point to avoid smoking in front of
children.
• 8% of affected smokers: Smoked less at
home.
• 46% of non-smokers: They had advised
smokers to quit.
 SECOND MEASURE:
Solving and banning the rise of the illicit
cigarettes in Malaysia

• Authorities should take action against

the sales of illicit cigarettes.

• Many tobacco products purchased at

retail outlets do not bear the
prescribed health warnings.
• By this, the purchaser of
the cigarettes will easily
obscure the graphic health
warnings and the smokers
will be lack of awareness
about the hazards of
smoking.
 CONCLUSION
• PHWs have been implemented in
Canada, Thailand, Singapore and other
countries and have proven to be
effective in tobacco control, having
reinforced the clarity of health
messages among smokers and non-
smokers, changing their attitudes to
quit smoking.
• Smoking cause a lot of hazards
especially to health so measures such as
PHWs and preventing the sales of illicit
cigarettes should be implemented
effectively and continuously.
THANK YOU
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