Talking about Tobacco

1. World No Tobacco Day
31st May
“Protecting youth from industry
manipulation and preventing them from
tobacco and nicotine use”
Presenter
Ashok Pandey
Nepal

2. Disclosure
The content is solely the responsibility of the presenter and does not
involved in any of the Tobacco company.

3. Number 1. No tobacco is safe. Tobacco smoke contains more than 7,000
chemicals. At least 250 are toxic and at least 69 are known to cause cancer.
• Yes, we all know that. WHO or tobacco related organisations must have to
give justice to these findings. We all know, tobacco is harmful.
• It’s like “Some Snakes Can Sting With Their Tails”
• Fact is, snakes always bite from its mouth.
• We do not have to worry about tails.
“People are dying from not from Nicotine”
Recommendation 1: We have to do the research on the remaining more than
6750 chemicals whether they are harmful or harmless. We must have to
develop a technology, we must have to engage the young researcher.

4. “Protecting youth from industry manipulation
and preventing them from tobacco and nicotine use”

5. Number 2: Tobacco industry strategies to manipulate data on risk.
1. Fund research that supports the interest group position.
2. Publish research that supports the interest group position.
3. Suppress research that does not support the interest group position.
4. Criticize research that does not support the interest group position.
5. Disseminate interest group data or interpretation of risk in the lay press.
6. Disseminate interest group data or interpretation of risk directly to
policymakers.
- Lisa A. Bero, PhD
Recommendation 2: Protecting youth from industry manipulation
(Nicotine= Addictiveness =Perpetuation of Business)

6. “Protecting youth from industry manipulation and preventing them from
tobacco and nicotine use”

7. Number 3: Tobacco Products & Dependence Potential
• The dependence potential of tobacco products is due mainly to their delivery of nicotine.
• The dependence-producing effect of nicotine can be manipulated by designs that increase
or decrease the amount and speed of nicotine delivery and absorption.
• The dependence potential of a product can be manipulated by designs that add ingredients
with dependence-producing effects to the product and emissions, in addition to nicotine.
Threshold of Nicotine Level
• Based on the current data, the optimal level for reducing addictiveness is:
≤ 0.4 mg nicotine per 1 g of tobacco filler.
Recommendation 3: It is vital that regulatory agencies establish guidance and standards for
nicotine regulation, to prevent the development of dependence in new users and to achieve
abstinence in current users by stopping the tobacco industry from including nicotine at
levels that maintain or increase dependence potential.

8. “Protecting youth from industry manipulation and
preventingthem from tobacco and nicotine use”

9. Challenges to Reducing Tobacco Use
• Low public knowledge, high barriers to increasing knowledge:
• Lack of resources for education campaigns
• High rates of illiteracy, especially among women/girls
• Governments dealing with more pressing issues
• High tobacco use rates among health professionals; training in tobacco
control and prevention is uncommon
• Diverse and new tobacco products, both smoked and smokeless
• Inadequate resources for research, interventions (policy and program), and
advocacy
Recommendation 4: Involving youth in productive work (Do not blame
others)

10. Thank you