How smoking information availability will end the tobacco plague

Credible research shows that 70% of people who smoke cigarettes actually wish they could stop smoking.This piece of information is really loaded. It tells us two key things about smoking tobacco.

Firstly that people who smoke may have never had a chance to get meaningful smoking information that would open their eyes to the realities of the dangers of smoking.

Secondly, it is clear that many other people who smoke especially young people still go on to smoke despite basic knowledge about the consequences on account of tremendous peer pressure.

Returning to the first indication, many people who start smoking hardly know anything about nicotine and the brain and how smokers get to die from terrible illnesses such as lung cancer, cervical cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular ailments.

It would appear that information about smoking is not that common after all. It's only now that schools, colleges and communities in different parts of the world are increasingly taking on the challenge of educating people especially teens about smoking.

Millions others are oblivious to the rapidly developing anti smoking laws whose ultimate consequence is to sniff out smokers by banning smoking in public places. The world so to speak will run out of "places to smoke" as governments under pressure from environmentalists and raising public health costs take head-on tobacco companies to limit their access to the traditional markets via tobacco advertising bans and restrictions amongst other things.

To take on the tobacco plague, concerted effort has to increase in the area of smoking information availability. New channels of tobacco information dissemination have to be explored. Smoking statistics must be widely available in schools and public places showing the real danger of even passive smoking also known as second hand smoke.

Apart from information to stop people from starting to smoke, information must equally be available to help people already smoking stop smoking. This kind of information would include the benefits of quitting smoking, best way to stop smoking and quit smoking programs and products amongst other things.

At the end of the day the real goal is to destroy the vast sea of ignorance when it comes to information about smoking. People must be fully exposed to facts about smoking including smoking stories of other people who have fallen trap to smoking dangers.

Information dissemination on smoking must engage a higher gear as much as found in issues to do with HIV and AIDS in developing countries. There is a real chance that smoking information availability will end the tobacco plague sooner than later.