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HEALTH - Prevention of the sale of cigarettes to children need to involve tobacco companies, merchants, and community. In addition to breaking the rules, the sale of cigarettes to children triggered dependence on tobacco products at an early age so that harm our health future generation.
This was expressed by Chairman of the Indonesian Child Protection Agency Seto Mulyadi, when contacted from Surabaya, East Java, on Friday (2/12). "Although there are rules, citizens need to be involved in its implementation so there are no omissions," he said.
The seriousness of the tobacco companies or owners of stores that sell cigarettes must be evidenced by a purchase commitment prohibit smoking in children. Therefore, children are the next generation of consumers cigarette as consumers age adults died.
General Manager Sales East Java Area Sampoerna Eric Chan Hee Ng, when meeting with the media "Smoking Prevention Program Purchase Access by Children", on Friday (2/12), at Surabaya, explains, prevention can not only do tobacco companies. Therefore, many parties related to the sale of cigarettes.
To that end, all parties concerned, among other cigarette manufacturers, the owner of the kiosk, cashiers, and small stalls, should be involved in banning the purchase of cigarettes by children. That as the Government Regulation No. 109 of 2012 on Safety Materials Containing Form Addictive Substances Tobacco Products for Healthcare, article 25 of which states, prohibited sale of tobacco products to children under the age of 18 years. "Association cigarette companies have never discussed that issue," he said.
small traders
The level of understanding of the rules of small traders was low. To that end, there should be dissemination of the government for not selling cigarettes to children. "We encourage small traders hard, because selling cigarettes is their right. They should not only seek profit," he said.
According to the monitoring in a number of modern retail stores in Surabaya, cashier prohibit buyers who wear school uniforms to buy cigarettes. However, traders in the stalls allow kids to buy cigarettes because they do not know there is a ban on the sale of cigarettes to children. "Want to buy cigarettes banned cook," said Pure, cigarette vendors.
One cigarette company Sampoerna, has been working with about 32,000 retail selling products. Both parties agreed not to sell cigarettes to children. Stickers contain a ban on selling cigarettes to children taped to the store in order to remind shoppers and cashiers.
In 2015, Sampoerna controlled about 35 percent of the cigarette market in Indonesia. Of the total number of sales, 85 percent of which from sales in modern retail stores. "We prohibit the sale of cigarettes to children of shops that have an agreement of cooperation," he said.
Owner Café Mart, a store that sells cigarettes, Jenny Nursada Said, said that despite the ban only cooperation with Sampoerna, it also prohibits the sale of all brands of cigarettes to children. (SYA)
