SMOKING CIGARETTE
Indonesia is the third country who has the most smokers. It is very ironic hear that. Cigarette has
damaged our rising generation. Almost half of our students have been ever
smoking. The government in Indonesia cannot move slightly to solve this problem
because the biggest tax that country gets is from cigarette. Much of disease
can float from this, even in the pack of cigarette has written about the diseases
that can occur because smoking but the people will ignore it. Whereas people in
the biggest country like America have forbidden smoking with increase the price
of cigarette more expensive. And the saddest is we are not part of them. We are
imperialized with another country indirectly even we have independent in the
last.
Cigarette is a small roll of finely
cut tobacco leaves wrapped in a cylinder of thin paper for smoking. Cigarette
have been arrested in Central America around 9th century in the form
of reeds smoking tubes. The first mankind who smoking is Ancient people there
are the Maya and later Aztecs smoked tobacco in religious rituals. After that
in 16th century a half of land cruiser from Europe tried smoking
tobacco. And then bring it to Europe. From that journey, cigarette is known not
only for ritual but also for requirement every day.
Many brands of cigarette spread in Indonesia. Like Marlboro,
Djarum super, dji sam soe, mild, etc. Many board of advertisement put up as
long as the way. Whereas in their origin country advertisement about cigarette
not permitted. Come to Indonesia like come back to America when cigarette be
the best part in this country and now it happened in Indonesia. All big
countries compete to build cigarette factory in here. Whatever the way they do
for do that. They are very smart make strategy in order they can founding it.
Only with giving primary commodity, they can easier to do everything here.
Variety of slogans about danger of smoking always put up in
every pack of cigarette. Slogan like smoking can cause cancer, heart attack,
impotence, problem in pregnancy and fetus. Even like that people will ignore
it, they only want to get satisfaction from smoking. Doctors are always
remembering to society about the danger of smoking. The substances of chemistry
that consist in cigarette are nicotine; it make smoker feel relax, tar,
cyanide, benzene, cadmium, methanol, acetylene, ammonia, formaldehyde; very
poisonous is use for pickle corpse, hydrogen; is using to make plastic and
pesticide, arsenic; contained in poisonous to kill mouse, and carbon monoxide;
is found in smoke of cars. That all can cause
smoker suffered many kind of illness. Death is the bad thing that will happen
to smoker. The first thing they will get cough until the horrify thing is their
part of body will putrid and rid of one by one from their body. Who
approximating that in 2020, illness because tobacco will be trouble for all the
world and minimum 8,4 million people will die because of that. Half of that
will happen in Asia
Advertisement of cigarette in
Indonesia cut down market of children and teenagers especially student from
kind of advertisement using teenagers which carry theme about life style,
education, etc. The example of slogan is go straight. Maybe it means go
straight to smoke. Or like this “make life more life" They show if young
generation not smoking, they are not cool. This condition is very sadness.
Children must free from influence of smoke that contain nicotine, and other
dangerous substance for healthy. Because of that 4 years old child addicted
smoking. 1,2 million children in Indonesia be active smoker. It is very tragic.
Government has failed to solve this problem. Factory of cigarette give sponsor
in every school to get interesting young people. Teenagers are soft target to
spread cigarette product. Not amazed if we can see our young generation smoking
beside her school. In Indonesia Is very easy to young man to buy cigarette even
they are still two or three years old.
We have to face to New Zealand; their government suspended
the cigarette in order to decrease smoker there. Sellers who sell cigarette
have to hide cigarette under their table. Their government decreases the tax of
cigarette until 40%. And they raise price of it until Rp. 200.000. In near time
they will decrease the price of it until Rp. 700.000. They are very brave to do
this even many side don’t deal with this decision.
The government in Indonesia must look the government of New
Zealand. Our government has to brave to take decision to erase cigarette. Maybe
the government afraid much of employee doesn’t have work, but they must slowly
build another factory to change it. Don’t just think about benefit of it. We
have to protect our next generation. We have to help society here be a good and
better people next. Doctors, parents, teacher and government have to help
mutually to make it happen. Smoking is same with delivering us to death so stop
smoking.
