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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 9^th 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 16^th 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.