HLSC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bromomethane, Fumigation, Clouding Of Consciousness
15 Jan 2016
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*in public health we try to teach people that they are overestimating the norm (people who drink vs. not) Why to be concerned; 8 reasons: globally, tobacco use kills 6 million people/year. One person dies every 6 secs from tobacco. 1/2 current users will die of tobacco-related disease: by 3030, tobacco will kill 8 million people/year; mostly from low-and middle-income countries. When we see countries with high smoking rates it means their money is going into: until 1980s, u. s> supplied tobacco; now, 85% comes from the global south where. Gts- tobacco harvesters absorb the nicotine through their skin while picking at tobacco child labour and green tobacco sickness (gts) are major problems extreme levels. Mozambique, kenya, malawi, tanzania, uganda, zambia, indonesia, philippines, Ex. of places using child labour for tobacco (nicaragua, mexico, brazil, argentina: the global share of agricultural land devoted to tobacco is <1%, but agriculture accounts for 1-4% of global deforestation.
