Apr 16, 2011

WTF - Clinic touts smoking as cure cancer, autism and emphysema

Indonesia's Griya Balur Clinic touts smoking as cure for cancer ...

As smokers grow six-fold in 40 years in Indonesia
Griya Balur would be shut down in many parts of the world, but not in Indonesia, one of the developing-country new frontiers for big tobacco as it seeks to replace its dwindling profits in the health-conscious West.

Long traditions of tobacco use combined with poor regulation and the billions of dollars that flow into government coffers from the tobacco industry mean places like Griya Balur go unchallenged.
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Seriously folks,
Indonesia where:

Economic Costs Attributable to Tobacco*
Indonesia: $842,000,000
Percent of Youth in Homes with Smokers
Indonesia: 66.8
Percent of Males Who Smoke Cigarettes
Indonesia: 62.1
Size of Health Warnings on Cigarettes
Indonesia: 0

A $Trillion Dollar Hole with
Burden Shift on World's Poorest Countries...
http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/images/charts/Chap11_DirectCosts.jpg
The global economy lost a staggering amount due to tobacco use.  These economic costs come as a result of lost productivity, misused resources, missed opportunities for taxation, and premature death.http://www.tobaccoatlas.org/images/charts/Chap27_Quitting.jpgIn related FAIL: a two-year-old boy is a chain smoker parents ca$h in.