Gives striping, peeling up, and classifying is the next step. These activities as stemming tobacco leaves are mailing down and greet warehouse. Here can see woman stemming the leaves. Woman sometimes pregnant and always surrounded or even helped by there little children. It's important to know that all those agritoxics are still present in the leaves. Children of all ages live in this dilitartos tobacco growing environment. They start to help parents from early on, on all different activities associated with tobacco growing, and children ? their habits such as chewing tobacco leaves or smoking handmade cigarettes. Some tasks are done at home, where everybody helps, as we can see in this group of houses, where children work and live among the tobacco leaves. This is a picture where a twelve year old girl is helping her mother to stem the leaves. Meanwhile two little children play in tobacco leaves. Tobacco leaves have a bad and toxic smell that affects everybody and may cause dizziness, vomiting, headaches, and allergy among them. In the south region children or adolescents work as a part of a tobacco farming family in all it's steps, therefor children work for no money at all. In the northeast children and adolescents also participate in the entire process, especially the male adolescents. Usually it's no social rise and receiving very little money. Pregnant women are increasingly working with pesticides, as men have become sensitized to this product. The is informal information suggesting an increase in fetal malformation among tobacco growers in our country. This also occurs among farm animals. Children and adolescents are especially harmed in tobacco growing areas. Industry make a relationship between tobacco and environmental preservation. This is done through forrestation clubs, for children, resembling ecological help. Establishing relationship within tobacco and environmental consciousness. Tobacco industry encourages the growths of vegetables, by children, through leaflets and booklets about how to develop an agricultural whole kitchen, and about healthy living. These deceiving tactics encourage tobacco agriculture. This teaches and stimulates tobacco plantation further. Besides that, children and adolescents are strongly focused by the Tobacco industry publicity.
There are numerous nationwide linking smoking with sex, success, and speed. There also promotion and sponsorship of a variety of events, music, sports, championships, dance, etc., that encourage teenagers to smoke. Free sample distribution stamps children to addiction. In rural areas children become brainwashed by the influence of tobacco publicity, selling, and smoking cigarettes, and using posters to adorn their homes as a reflection of a modern urban life. This is a brand name of a cigarette in Brazil. Plaza been used in a house decorative piece. Vance, with cigarette logos and T-shirts for distribution. Among health care professionals establish a relationship between health action, and cigarettes, mainly in the poorest regions of the Country.
Hollywood is a brand name of a cigarette in Brazil. In Brazil, as an old Latin American country, the health consequence of tobacco use can already be seen. In developing countries malnutrition and infectious disease associated with smoking during pregnancy increases the rate of low birth weight. According to Victoria, there is a relationship of 7.5% of low birth weights among non-smokers against 16.3% among smokers in the south of the country. Prevalence that in Latin America, shows that different smoking patterns among pregnant women. Fetuses and newborns are highly exposed to the mother smoking.
We find out 40.8% of pregnant women smoke. A statistic representative sample of a national survey shows an alarming pattern among children, 3% of rural areas children ages five to ten years old, smokes regularly. This totals twenty five thousand smokers among this age group, from five to ten years old. In the same age group in an urban area prevalence reduced to.01% and the number of five to nineteen years old who smoke is 2.7 million, 10% of all smokers in the country, and we have prevalence that among street of still 80% of street children smoking. An increasing prevalence of smokers can be seen as children get older. Here we have ten different cities capitals of the states of the countries, where we can see a survey that was done in 87 and 93, we can see that there is an increase in cigarettes once in a life time consumption, in both sexes in almost all the cities in the country. This increase seems to be result of the strong publicity of tobacco products and the reduced investment in tobacco prevention programs. The impact of the direct effects on health of persons smoking, are not evaluated in Brazil, but some information about them has been studied. Corroborating the international epidemiological data that links this health threat among children under one year old, to parents smoking status. In conclusion we can assume that Brazil reflects the sad reality of other developing countries, using the unhealthy business of tobacco production. We can see in this report, that in all tobacco growing states, where community is involved in this activity, and the children and adolescents are not preserved in instance. Hopefully a change in this reality will require deep economical and social changes, especially when considering children's rights. That means a global change as children are victims of society as a whole, mainly in developing countries. The tobacco issue is a telling example. When addressing the tobacco issue we must consider several intervention. First, to ban advertisement aimed at children and adolescent smoking. Second, to ban the teaching of tobacco growing in rural schools. Third, to prohibit tobacco industries sponsorships of machiros for kitchen gardens and re-forrestations so avoiding this deceitful connection between tobacco and health or environmental protection. To stimulate the growths of alternative crops in tobacco growing countries, particularly in developing countries. Avoiding government support of this leaf share crop.
We have some experience in the south of the country of alternative tobacco crop that is sponsored by the Catholic Church in Brazil. To support the economic measures to increase the price of tobacco products. To ban the sponsorship of vaccination campaign and the health campaign by tobacco industry. To provide mandatory education to prevent tobacco use among children and adolescents, reinforcement particularly in tobacco growing areas. In Brazil we are just developing a tobacco control program to be implanted in schools all over the country. Thank you very much.