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29/05/2013
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Data are part of new survey done in the country. According to the study, the majority of the population, smokers or not, supports anti-smoking measures
One in three Brazilian smokers quit addiction between 1989 and 2010 after the adoption of restrictive measures advertising in the country, including the adoption of warnings about the risks of smoking in packaging. It reveals that an unpublished research done in Porto Alegre, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro with 1,830 people. The survey also showed that most of the population is in favor of more stringent measures to combat smoking: 92% of nonsmokers and 89% of smokers interviewed agree that the government should do more to fight addiction.
Also according to the study, when asked whether tobacco products should have more control, 83.1% of smokers surveyed said yes. "The numbers make it clear that the population is very receptive," says study coordinator, Mary MacNally.
Dubbed the report of International Politics Tobacco Control (ITC), the work is the result of a partnership between the University of Waterloo in Canada, the Ministry of Health, the National Cancer Institute (INCA), the National Policy on Drugs (Senad), the Cancer Foundation, the Alliance for Tobacco Control (ACTbr), the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and the Center for Research on Tobacco and Health (Cetab).
The first step of the analysis was made in 2009. Then we analyzed the responses of the participants at the end of 2012 and this year. The research also identified a decrease in the perception of cigarette advertising. In 2009, 42.8% of smokers reported that cigarette marketing was frequent or very frequent. In more recent interview, however, this number dropped to 22.6%. The same phenomenon was noted in the group of nonsmokers. Furthermore, almost half of respondents claimed to be favorable to the adoption of a package "generic" cigarette: all with the same color without designs and logos.
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