Dear all. >From the 20th century there has been a great deal of advancing in learning >from the brain sciences and neurosciences and also there were some evolution >of ideas about social determinants of mental health and disorders. Meanwhile >the beginning of 21st century social work professionals and medical >professional combined a joint force in spreading globally for alcohol, tobacco >free and other substance (drugs) of abuse worldwide. Tobaccos as a driving >force one of the worst and hazardous roles both to environmental and to human >health. Tobacco growing often creates an devastating part in exploitation of >child labor at all stages of cultivation and curing thereby affecting school >attendance like other crops make use of child labor, but tobacco's longer >growing season and the curing process seem to place particular strains. More >badly enough Tobacco cultivation involves a great deal of pesticides which >must be used in all stages of tobacco growth. However toxic chemicals found in >fertilizers can be absorbed into the water contains high levels of nitrates >and nitrite is well known of causing blue-baby syndrome (methemoglobinemia) >and can also lead to miscarriage in pregnant women. Mercury, lead, cadmium and >uranium are some of the toxic heavy metals that have been found in fertilizers >and can cause disturbances of the kidneys, lungs and liver and cause cancer - >depending on how much it has been consumed. Not only fertilizers, herbicides >and pesticides direct poison to farm workers and it causes chronic health >problems, but they also seep into the soil and pollute waterways and >ecological systems and poisoning livestock and food crops. Green tobacco >sickness (GTS) is an illness resulting from dermal exposure to dissolved >nicotine from wet tobacco leaves; it is characterized by nausea, vomiting, >weakness, and dizziness and sometimes fluctuations in blood pressure or heart. >The sickness was first documented in 1973 by Dr Stephen Gehlbach of the >university of Massachusetts school of Public health and the problem is quoted >in 1993 segment as saying, "its hard to imagine that there is any other >occupation where as many people get sick on the job in as short a period of >time, where something isn't done about it. Today globally scientist a >struggling because they believe deforestation is the main changing and >contributing factor to the global warming while the tobacco industry is the >major contributor to the global warming. The most damaging unheralded scandal >of Tobacco industry in the developing countries is so memorable to the lives >of the innocent children and women. Deforestation is another issue to be >considered as the most severe environmental problem worldwide, modern >cigarette manufacturer use wood to cure the tobacco to roll and package the >cigarettes. One cigarette manufacturing machine uses four miles of paper per >hour to roll and package cigarettes. Therefore it has been estimated one tree >is consumed for every 300 cigarette in the developing countries. Increasing >flood and decreasing food output has been affecting climate and it is also the >largest damage to the deforestation scale to the environment. Women in >developing countries carry the heaviest burden since they must carry out >farming-related tasks and collect wood for the barns as well as for domestic >use. Often times they must travel longer and longer distances to find the wood >also like in African countries normally plantation of tobacco is done earl >January and February these are dry season months and there is shortage of >water women are also forced to make long distance of searching water for the >tobacco plantation. When the land no longer sustains them communities may be >required to move altogether searching for a better land in order to have a >good yield tobacco. The industry claims to encourage reforestation programs. >But these programs are problematic in that small farmers in the developing >world prefer to use their small amount of land to grow food rather than >replacement trees. Diversifying to grow other cash products isn't always >feasible as the economic incentives provided by the tobacco companies make >tobacco an irresistibly profitable commodity, especially to poor farmers. If >we are to shortage of food production and humanitarian food aid most of the >rich farmland is being diverted to tobacco production. An example can be in >West Nile in Uganda people from Maracha and other villages closer to Koboko >are forced to search for rich land at the boarder of Sudan for tobacco >cultivation the area was a reserve forest. World health organization officials >has been writing several articles in fighting Tobacco, alcohol and other >substance of abuse without involving the entire community it may always lead >to slow acceptance. Community That Care is one of the best systems and it has >a lot of prove to the rehabilitation of Alcohol, Tobacco and other Substance >(drug) of abuse in the United States of America. Communities That Care is a >system developed by J. David Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano to empower >communities to use advances from prevention science to guide their prevention >efforts of Alcohol, Tobacco and other Substance of Abuse. Community >intervention focuses on developing empowering process and building a sense of >ownership and social responsibility within community members. Community that >cares also plays a huge role in prevention of suicidal ideation because >suicidal is a mental health problem then community must be involved in >monitoring and working together with other mental health professionals. Best wishes, Arike Joel Pundro
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