Tobacco products control amendment bill 2006

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Tobacco products control amendment bill 2006

• A nurse,s point of view
• Xandra van Biljon

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An emosional issue

• Tobacco companies protect their investments
• Anti-smoker protect rights for own health
• Smoker wants protect rights of freedom
• Patient lost all rights to healthy life
• Nurse sort out emosional issue

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Nurse as Rolemodel

• We stand for caring and healing
• We should also prevent illness and disease
• Smoking is a deadly disease
• Smoking is PREVENTABLE
• Do we have the training to deal with the tobacco
  epidemic?
• Do we have the skills to deal with smokers?

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in the end, it is the nurse
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Smoking Cessation Clinic

• Started July 1999
• Conducting scientific studies
• Also offer counseling on private basis
• Experience the devastating effects of cigarettes
  on daily basis
• How can we not speak out?

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Smoke-free Public Places

• From my praxis perception A large percentage of
  smokers prefer to eat in a non-smoking
  environment
• They have since learned how to eat out without
  smoking
• Children must be banned from smoking sections
• If we continue to make smoking an effort,
  cigarette consumption will decrease

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Smokers work less hours

• Employers will get pressure from non-smoking
  employees because they work more hours for the
  same pay.
• A smoker (or employer!)loses at least 10 min of
  time for every smoke-break
• Limit the smoke breaks to the tea-time and
  lunch-time

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Big fat Light lie

• Over 90 of our clients changed at one or other
  stage to a so-called Light cigarette
• Created the false impression they smoke
  healthier
• Remove Light from all cigarette packs
• BAN!! Buying singles

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Light in the pocket too!

• Smokers usually and gradually increase their
  tobacco consumption instead of 10 unhealthy
  cigarettes, they smoke 20 healthy cigarettes,
  but do not realise that they are spending double
  the amount of money!
• How many teenagers plan to become full blown
  smokers?

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What is available in SA today?

• No programs for nurses in their Curriculum for
  tobacco behaviour related issues
• No training of special skills for nurses in this
  field
• Certain areas of nursing should be identified for
  instance Midwives, Clinics in the Communities,
  industrial nurses

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Smoke-free homes?

• Nurses encourage smokers to keep homes
  smoke-free, to protect non-smokers..specially
  children, they cannot protect themselves
• If they are unwilling to stop, they can limit
  themselves to a certain area or better smoke
  outside

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Smoke-free cars?

• Smallest confined smoke is in a car how can we
  protect the non-smoker?
• How do we protect children in the same car?
• What about taxi,s complaints alone do not
  change behaviour, should the passengers just
  refuse to pay?
• Suggestion inform parent encourage parents to
  change their behaviour (national adds)

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Effects of tobacco use

• Cancer
• Emphysema (long and slow death)
• COPD (chronic cough)
• Nurses should at all times make negative
  statemants about ill-effects of smoking
• Also the direct costs involved
• Plus minus R37 000 over 7 years!!

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Regulation of tobacco products

• Very frustrating topic we wait many months for
  nicotine studies to be approved
• We wait up to 3 years to get safe and proven
  drugs (to help people quit) registered
• In contrast, how can the deadly product called
  cigarette be so easily available?
• By-products of cigarettes are deadly, how come we
  allow this on the market?

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Suggestions from a nurse

• Basic training ( 1 full day)for nurses of all
  clinics
• Measure CO (breath test) like Bp
• Support the Help-line (011-720 31 45)
• Expose the truth about tobacco
• Support the New Ammendmend Bill
• Make more funds available for prevention

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What do we need?

• Nurses best practice guidelines can be
  successfully implemented only
• Adequate planning
• Resources
• Organizational support

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My plight?

• My motivation to support the smoker in their
  quest to free themselves from this deadly
  addiction
• Protect the non-smoker, specially children, from
  the harmful effects of tobacco consumption
• PREVENT anyone from taking the first cigarette!!!!

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Thank you