Australia Friday launched the National Youth Tobacco Free Day to educate young people to stay away from smoking.
NYTFD, the tobacco free youth campaign, aims to educate young people about a range of issues associated with smoking, including health effects, environmental effects, and related laws.
Anti-tobacco awareness and education events are to be held in schools right across the country on Friday.
According to Australian Associated Press, the Western Australia Heart Foundation project has showed a strong call to put an end to tobacco companies using front-line branding as advertising.
Smarter than Smoking project coordinator Fiona Phillips said: “Clever and colorful new cigarettes pack designs constantly enter the market and present a marketing strategy to recruit young people to smoke”.
A member of the OxyGen alliance responsible for organizing NYTFD, Phillips said the survey results would be sent to federal and state politicians to support a proposal by the National Preventative Health Taskforce for the introduction of plain packaging.
To support the NYTFD, the South Australian government issued a statement on Friday, warning that one in two people who start smoking as teenagers will eventually die from tobacco-related disease.
Substance Abuse Minister Jane Lomax-Smith noted in the statement that currently 23 percent of young South Australians aged 15 to 29 smoke.
Tobacco is an annual or bi-annual growing 1-3 meters tall with large sticky leaves that contain nicotine. Native to the Americas, tobacco has a long history of use as a shamanic inebriant and stimulant. It is extremely popular and well-known for its addictive potential.
Nicotiana rustica leaves.
Nicotiana rustica leaves have a nicotine content as high as 9%, whereas Nicotiana tabacum (common tobacco) leaves contain about 1 to 3%
A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into the mouth. Cigar tobacco is grown in significant quantities in Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Sumatra, Philippines, and the Eastern United States.
Tobacco is an agricultural product processed from the fresh leaves of plants in the genus Nicotiana. It can be consumed, used as an organic pesticide, and in the form of nicotine tartrate it is used in some medicines. In consumption it may be in the form of cigarettes smoking, snuffing, chewing, dipping tobacco, or snus.
