�While jams and other consumer products are stringently regulated and are required to go past stringent tests before they can be sold, baccy has no restrictions and manufacturers can buoy, and do, add anything they want into the product.
Published in Respirology by Wiley-Blackwell, the invited editorial "Regulation of Consumer Products: The Bizarre Case of Strawberry Jam and Cigarettes" discusses the issues surrounding tobacco plant regulations and how the industry could be more effectively governed.
"The organization of regularization is a political swear out and occurs slowly. However, with the gradual only prolonged and massive epidemic of tobacco-related diseases, regularization of the industry's products - specifically the constituents of tobacco smoke - has to begin now", says author Dr. Nigel Gray, member of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Tobacco Regulation Study Group.*
Despite the complexities of regulating coffin nail manufacturing, the Tobacco Regulation Study Group, or TobReg, has proposed practical substance to start the progressive process of tobacco regulating. As a first stair, it has suggested setting mandatory levels for some of the major carcinogens and toxicants in cigarettes. In increase, regular reviews must also be conducted as initial toxin levels are considered generous by industry standards for many countries.
"There is no need for an expensive bureaucracy to oversee this regulation. Countries can plainly mandate TobReg's recommendations and publicize them as advice from the world's fundamental public wellness board. Countries without butt manufacturing facilities can just refuse to import cigaret that do not meet these standards", says Dr. Gray.
He adds, "International standards ar highly desirable as big amounts of cigarettes ar traded betwixt countries with differing national standards. It is timely for WHO to coiffure standards and offer earthly concern leadership - particularly as their Framework Convention on Tobacco Control is now in its implementation process, albeit a good deal slower than most world health advocates would desire. Singapore, Australia and New Zealand ar ideally placed to pioneer the introduction of these measures."
This paper volition be published in the September 2008 issue of Respirology (Vol. 13, Issue 6).
* Disclosure of Interest: The author is a member of the World Health Organization (Who) Tobacco Regulation Study Group.
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