Tobacco Health Campaign Against Cancer

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Tobacco Health Campaign Against Cancer
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Cancer is one of the most devastating diseases in Australia and the rest of the world at
large. This disease is caused by several factors in the human lifestyle including those which
involve the way one lives his/her life and the kind of behaviors one gets involved in. Cancer
results from exposure to general substances referred to as carcinogens in a conclusive term. This
ranges from tobacco smoking, exposure to radiations among other common causative agents
which are known worldwide. There are different classes of cancers which are classified
according to the places they occur in the body. These include several types among those which
are associated with blood – blood cancer, skin – skin cancer, lung – lung cancer, lymph –
lymphomas among many others. For this particular campaign, tobacco smoking will be the
discussion that contributes to lung cancer in Australian residents (Lopez, 2014).
Tobacco smoking is just a single but one of the biggest causes and preventable instances
which leads to loss of lives and disease-causing factors in Australia. In the year 1998, an
approximate death of about 19000 people in Australia occurred and was attributed to being
caused by tobacco use and smoking. Tobacco smoking was also attributing to a total of about 10
percent disease burdens in Australia during the year 1996 which went through a consistent
decline in the number of men and women who involve in tobacco smoking in 1960s to the 1990s
from about 60 percent males & 30 percent females to 27 percent males & 23 percent females
respectively (Perricone et al., 2016). State and the national jurisdictions in Australia share the
responsibilities in funding and the deliveries made on preventive health services and those
therapies. These contributed to the development of campaigns of tobacco control in the whole
state during the 1980s which has greatly improved and developed to be implemented in the
Australian territories to enhance the tobacco control programs and campaigns. This also attracted
and made an additive action by the non-governmental organizations to undertake this program

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which is a clear indication that shows that tobacco smoking is dangerous for human health. In the
year 1996, the federal minister came up with a brilliant idea of developing competent ways of
increasing measures used for the reduction of smoking prevalence in the whole Australian land.
This led to a cumulative collaboration that enhanced the development of the anti-tobacco
national campaign. This involved the government is putting aside a sum amount of 7 million
dollars in two financial years for the focus of the National Tobacco Campaign to target those
smokers whose age ranges from 18 to 40 years (Stumberg, 2013).
With close coordination between the department of health of Australia and a certain
expert committee advisory’s advice, the national tobacco campaign was eventually launched in
June 1997 which has continuously led most of the campaigns against tobacco smoking in
Australia since that time. The national tobacco campaign as a mass media has been the most
lucrative and an intense way and long lasted anti-tobacco campaign ever seen in Australia since.
This has been supported by a lot of funding for this program campaign by those grants got from
the many other states to enable the full force and working of federal government activities in
advertising (Mamudu, Cairney, & Studlar, 2015).
As seen from the history of the culture of the Australians in smoking tobacco, it is
noticed that it was mostly done in large scale so many years ago and due to the introduction of
the national tobacco campaigns which has made this habit to greatly decline from the past years
when the abuse of tobacco was high. This was so extreme because even the women were
introduced and exposed to tobacco smoking during the time they were also included as the
workforce in agricultural fields. This made the women have large freedom in the usage of
tobacco and this greatly led to the destruction of a lot of lives including those of the unborn
babies since a lot of diseases arise from tobacco. The state territories of tobacco smoking in