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WOMEN SMOKERS ARE ON THE RISE - MTS
KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 (Bernama) -- More and more women throughout the world
are becoming smokers as tobacco companies continued to target them through
advertisements, said Professor Roslina Manap, the President of Malaysian
Thoracic Society (MTS) Wednesday.
She said women in the world are addicted to cigarette as most of them
believed the content of advertisements that it could easily make them loose
weight.
"There are some advertisements which claimed that by smoking, women can
loosen their weight easily, and some are attracted to the cigarette
packaging," she said at the launch of the new Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease (COPD) Assessment Test (CAT) and the newly revised clinical practice
guidelines (CPG) for COPD developed by MTS and GlaxoSmithKline here.
While admitting that the tobacco companies are on the winning side, Roslina
said they need to be educated to outsmart the tobacco advertisements.
Roslina said women smokers are risking their lives as they could easily
develop COPD which can damage the lungs and the airways.
"In fact, compared with men, smoking women stand a higher risk of developing
COPD," she said adding that the CAT and CPG were developed due to the worrisome
number of COPD patients in Malaysia, mainly due to effects of tobacco.
Roslina said although COPD is an unfamiliar term to many, it kills more
people worldwide than HIV and AIDS.
"According to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates as of
2007, some 210 million suffer from COPD and 3 million died of COPD in 2005.
"COPD is predicted to become the fourth biggest killer by 2030," she added.
She said the incidents of COPD were projected to rise alongside the
projected increases in tobacco use.
"In Malaysia, it is estimated that 50 per cent of the male population
smoke while women smokers comprise of about 20 per cent of the world's more than
1 billion smokers.
"These figures are a cause for concern, given that smoking has been
established as the main cause of OCPD," she added.
--BERNAMA
are becoming smokers as tobacco companies continued to target them through
advertisements, said Professor Roslina Manap, the President of Malaysian
Thoracic Society (MTS) Wednesday.
She said women in the world are addicted to cigarette as most of them
believed the content of advertisements that it could easily make them loose
weight.
"There are some advertisements which claimed that by smoking, women can
loosen their weight easily, and some are attracted to the cigarette
packaging," she said at the launch of the new Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary
Disease (COPD) Assessment Test (CAT) and the newly revised clinical practice
guidelines (CPG) for COPD developed by MTS and GlaxoSmithKline here.
While admitting that the tobacco companies are on the winning side, Roslina
said they need to be educated to outsmart the tobacco advertisements.
Roslina said women smokers are risking their lives as they could easily
develop COPD which can damage the lungs and the airways.
"In fact, compared with men, smoking women stand a higher risk of developing
COPD," she said adding that the CAT and CPG were developed due to the worrisome
number of COPD patients in Malaysia, mainly due to effects of tobacco.
Roslina said although COPD is an unfamiliar term to many, it kills more
people worldwide than HIV and AIDS.
"According to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates as of
2007, some 210 million suffer from COPD and 3 million died of COPD in 2005.
"COPD is predicted to become the fourth biggest killer by 2030," she added.
She said the incidents of COPD were projected to rise alongside the
projected increases in tobacco use.
"In Malaysia, it is estimated that 50 per cent of the male population
smoke while women smokers comprise of about 20 per cent of the world's more than
1 billion smokers.
"These figures are a cause for concern, given that smoking has been
established as the main cause of OCPD," she added.
--BERNAMA
