{"id":8843,"date":"2010-06-09T15:47:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T22:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/?p=8843"},"modified":"2010-06-14T19:58:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T02:58:02","slug":"cdc-global-tobacco-marketing-is-reaching-young-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oralcancernews.org\/wp\/cdc-global-tobacco-marketing-is-reaching-young-women\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC: Global tobacco marketing is reaching young women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source: CDC<br \/>\nAuthor: Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As World Recognizes \u201cWorld No Tobacco Day 2010\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Although women account for only about 20 percent of the world\u2019s 1.3 billion smokers, tobacco use among women is on the rise. \u00a0Particularly troubling is new data from three countries \u2014Bangladesh,Thailand, and\u00a0Uruguay\u2014indicating greater exposure to cigarette marketing among young women (ages 15 to 24) than older women, according to a CDC study.<\/p>\n<p>In Bangladesh, exposure to bidi cigarettes (80.1 percent) and smokeless tobacco (69.9 percent) marketing was widespread among women and did not vary by age.\u00a0 Bidi cigarettes are hand rolled cigarettes made of tobacco that are primarily used in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 2007, the\u00a0Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) is a nationally representative household survey of persons ages 15 years and older being implemented in 14 countries around the world. \u00a0Bangladesh, Thailand and Uruguay are the first three countries for which 2009 data is available.\u00a0 Before GATS, no one standard global survey for adults has consistently tracked tobacco use and other tobacco control measures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTobacco kills more people each year than HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined, and tobacco deaths are increasing steadily,\u201d said\u00a0CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.\u00a0\u201cThe results of these surveys show one of the key reasons for the tobacco epidemic \u2013 marketing, including to women and girls.\u00a0Countries around the world should establish and enforce comprehensive bans on advertising, sponsorship, and promotion of tobacco products,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Other report highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Bangladesh, 1.5 percent of women are current smokers, compared with 44.7 percent of men, while the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use is similar for men and women (26.4 percent and 27.9 percent, respectively)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Thailand, 3.1 percent of women are current smokers, compared with 45.6 percent of men, while the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use is 6.3 percent for women, compared with 1.3 percent for men.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>In Uruguay, 19.8 percent of women are current smokers, compared with 30.7 percent of men. Uruguay has almost no smokeless tobacco use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cMonitoring the global tobacco epidemic is essential to measuring the impact of tobacco control policies and interventions,\u201d said Samira Asma, D.D.S., M.P.H., Chief, Global Tobacco Control Branch, CDC\u2019s Office on Smoking and Health.\u00a0 \u201cThe Global Adult Tobacco Survey is critical to our understanding of tobacco use worldwide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To effectively combat the tobacco epidemic, the World Health Organization recommends\u00a0MPOWER, a technical assistance package that requires\u00a0<strong>monitoring<\/strong> tobacco use and prevention policies,\u00a0<strong>protecting <\/strong>people from tobacco smoke,\u00a0<strong>offering<\/strong> help to quit tobacco smoking,\u00a0<strong>warning<\/strong> about the dangers of tobacco,\u00a0<strong>enforcing<\/strong> bans on tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship, and\u00a0<strong>raising<\/strong> taxes on tobacco.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0World Health Organization (WHO) created World No Tobacco Day in 1987 to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes. The theme for this year\u2019sWorld No Tobacco Day\u2014which takes place on May 31\u2014is \u201cgender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funding for GATS is provided by the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use and is conducted in partnership with the\u00a0Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids,\u00a0CDC Foundation,\u00a0Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,\u00a0World Health Organization, and the\u00a0World Lung Foundation. Other participating countries are Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Russian Federation, Turkey, Ukraine and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>For an online version of the MMWR report, please visit\u00a0www.cdc.gov\/mmwr.\u00a0 For information on World No Tobacco Day, visit\u00a0<a name=\"4\"><\/a>www.cdc.gov\/tobacco, and for additional information and materials, including posters, visit WHO\u2019s Tobacco Free Initiative at\u00a0http:\/\/www.who.int\/tobacco\/en\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: CDC Author: Staff As World Recognizes \u201cWorld No Tobacco Day 2010\u201d Although women account for only about 20 percent of the world\u2019s 1.3 billion smokers, tobacco use among women is on the rise. \u00a0Particularly troubling is new data from three countries \u2014Bangladesh,Thailand, and\u00a0Uruguay\u2014indicating greater exposure to cigarette marketing among young women (ages 15 to 24) than older women, according to a CDC study. In Bangladesh, exposure to bidi cigarettes (80.1 percent) and smokeless tobacco (69.9 percent) marketing was widespread among women and did not vary by age.\u00a0 Bidi cigarettes are hand rolled cigarettes made of tobacco that are primarily used in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Launched in 2007, the\u00a0Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) is a nationally representative household survey of persons ages 15 years and older being implemented in 14 countries around the world. \u00a0Bangladesh, Thailand and Uruguay are the first three countries for which 2009 data is available.\u00a0 Before GATS, no one standard global survey for adults has consistently tracked tobacco use and other tobacco control measures. \u201cTobacco kills more people each year than HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria combined, and tobacco deaths are increasing steadily,\u201d said\u00a0CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H.\u00a0\u201cThe results of these surveys show one of the key reasons for the tobacco epidemic \u2013 marketing, including to women and girls.\u00a0Countries around the world should establish and enforce comprehensive bans on advertising, sponsorship, and promotion of tobacco products,\u201d he said. 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