Indonesian President Urged to Protect Children From Smoking

Source from:  Prensa Latina 06/16/2016

The Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Youth Movement (GM-FCTA) has called on Indonesian President Joko Widodo to protect children from the dangers of cigarettes in the interest of the nation.

"The nations key interest is to protect the Indonesian people, so that in this case, safeguarding children from the dangers of cigarettes must be given priority," GM-FCTA spokesman Margianta Surahman noted in a press release here today.

She said accession to the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) is a commitment made by the government of a country to protect the future of its healthier and more productive people.

Indonesian Minister for Woman Empowerment and Child Protection Yohana Yambise had expressed concern over the increase in the number of child smokers in the country.

"A total of 54 percent of Indonesian children are now smokers," she remarked after a limited cabinet meeting on the FCTC led by President Joko Widodo.

Yambise has vowed to wean away children and women from smoking as it could cause lung cancer, miscarriage, cervical cancer, and heart problems.

The minister urged to put in place a special rule to save people, especially women and children, from the harmful habit of cigarette smoking.

Indonesia,with 250 millon inhabitantes, 118 who are men

is the country with more male smokers in the world with 67,4 percent of male addicts to nicotine, according to a poll publish by Antara News agency. Enditem