Hello all! I am Evandro Alves Barbosa Filho, from Recife city, in Pernambuco state, northeast Brazil. I am very happy in had been invited to participate in this terrific Conference! I can´t wait to meet you all soon and can be able to share experiences and plan an agenda for youth advocacy around the world. As were asked, I am publishing my profile in tobacco control advocacy and awareness. Recife is a city with more than 1,5 million of inhabitants situated in northeast Brazil. I have being working with health promotion trough a continuous health education process towards the creation and implementation of Smoke - Free Workplaces; civil society mobilization towards disclosure of the tobacco industry’s strategies; elaboration of projects, scientific papers to national and international conferences in Tobacco Control and Social Work field and educative material in the Recife’s Tobacco Control Policy Coordination of the Health Secretariat. I also have been interviewed by local media. Actually, I am working in order to improve social control for this policy involving the Municipal Health Council and organized civil society. We developed in October of 2008 a formation cycle for the Council members that had as objective to strengthen the tobacco control actions in the city, through social oversight; to promote ethical, social, political, economic and cultural formation about the tobacco control issue and to stimulate tobacco control advocacy. I am also working to implement the Latin America Youth Net – LA RED, in which I represent Brazil, by starting from my city, first establishing partnership with the Universities’ Student’s Movement. Also I intend to improve the Recife’s Social Civil Mobilization Forum.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 6:25 am
In Nigeria smoking is seen as something glamorous or funny.
A recent study conducted by the united states centre for diseases control in cross river states in Nigeria discovered that 45% of the young people of boys and girls think that those who smoke have more friends. Also 17% think boys who smoke and 16% think that girls who smoke look more attractive.
More so, smoking is presented in Nigeria as attractive probably because of the way it is presented. Young people see their role models in films stars, musicians and celebrities smoking or portraying smoking as something funny and glamorous.
Many youths even see smoking as a status symbol, a means or way of telling their mates or contemporaries that they have arrived or matured.
Smoking Prevalence In Nigeria.
Adult (15 Years & Older), 1990
Males 15.4
Females 1.7
Overall 8.9
Youths, 2001
Males 23.9
Females 17.0
Overall 18.1
Senior Executives
Males 17.4
Females 0.02
Overall 13.
To decrease the habit of smoking by the youths, there should be ban on all forms of radio and television adverts about tobacco and ban on the sale of cigarettes around schools and school premises. Government should make anti smoking treaties and laws so as to reduce and help the youths break the habit of smoking. The government should enforce the ban on advertising tobacco.
March 3rd, 2009 at 6:34 am
My Organization Youth Action On Tobacco COntrol and HEalth (YATCH) has been in the mainstream of activism against the tobacco industry in Nigeria through subtle ways such as in-house counselling for the students that join our tobacco-free youth clubs and in major ways through public awareness and street-to-street campaigns on the WOrld NO Tobacco Day in Lagos State Nigeria!