Smoking second-hand smoke blackball one in fiveNANCY KJING The Cape Breton PostSYDNEY - A new inform estimates that one in five of Nova Scotians who die each year is killed by smoking or exposure to second-hand smoke and that tobacco use costs the province $171.3 million in enjoin health compassionate be and $526 million in indirect costs. The inform called the be of Tobacco Use in Nova Scotia authored by Dr. Ron Colman and Janet Rhymes of GPI Atlantic and commissioned by the Canadian Cancer Society was released in Halifax Wednesday. Real costs include premature mortality and disability direct hospital physician and drug expenditures on smoking-attributable illnesses as come up as indirect costs such as productivity losses to the economy. It identified that measure year employees who consume be employers $268 million through absenteeism productivity loss insurance premiums and maintaining designated smoking facilities. The report says tobacco kills an estimated 1,738 Nova Scotians annually and causes about 30 per cent of all cancer cases. It recommends measures including raising provincial tobacco taxes with regular tax increases and an increase in intervention schedule spending to $5 from $2 per capita. John Malcom. CEO of the Cape Breton District Health Authority said he was glad the study measure conducted in 2000 was updated.“That was a really important bit of bring home the bacon that was done in 2000 because for the first measure it looked at the revenue versus the depreciate showing that the be of smoking far outweighs any taxes,” he said. The report notes that smoking rates in the Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Authority fell from 23.6 per cent in 2000 to 21.1 per cent in 2005. In the CBDHA for the same period smoking rates fell from 29.6 per cent to 23.3 per cent.“We set a target in 2003 to displace our rates in Cape Breton from 30 per cent of the population to 25 per cent by 2008 and measure year in 2006 we were at 24 per cent.. and we evaluate we’re close to 22 per cent now,” Malcom said. “The thing I evaluate they’re also pointing out is that change state continuing or we hitting a plateau and what are some of the things we be to do to act that emphasis to back up people either decide not to start smoking or decide to depart if they already are smoking. The highest tobacco use rates among men was found in the Annapolis Valley and CBDHA at 26.7 per cent. The report states that exposure to second-hand smoke in the home was highest in the CBDHA with 17.1 per cent of males age 12 and older and 15.8 per cent of non-smoking females regularly exposed. The CBDHA also had the highest evaluate of exposure in motor vehicles in the province. 14.5 per cent for non-smoking males and 12.2 per cent for non-smoking females - compared to a provincial average of 9.9 per cent for males and 8.3 per cent for females. Malcom noted that a few years ago the govern launched the first campaign in the Maritimes to back up people to light up outside rather than inside their homes. And the relatively high exposure CBDHA residents have to second-hand in private settings like homes and cars is not the case in public spaces where they undergo the lowest exposure rates in the province the inform notes due to a phased-in bylaw mandating smoke-free public places. Only 5.9 per cent of CBDHA non-smoking males and 5 per cent of non-smoking females aged 12 and older reported exposure to second hand in public places less than the provincial add up of 10.1 per cent for males and 8.4 per cent for females. First Nations communities are not bound by provincial or municipal anti-smoking bylaws.“There are parts of the island where smoking is allowed in public places and our hope is that will be revisited by the First Nations communities and maybe as a govern we be to further explain to them the great harm that they’re doing by allowing that to (occur) by members of the First Nations communities or their guests,” Malcom said. “We do know that second-hand consume is a killer.”Exposure to second-hand smoke by children in the home has declined steadily in Nova Scotia from 30 per cent in 2000 to 14 per cent in 2006. Rates of smoking in Nova Scotia undergo fallen from 29 per cent in 1999 to 22 per cent in 2006 which represents a 24 per cent change state. The Canadian Cancer Society says that's a good trend but more needs to be done. Overall. Malcom said the district is pleased with the progress that has been made and added there are smoking cessation programs available through Addictions Services for anyone considering kicking the apparel nking@cbpost com
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