'Tak nak' alcohol should be the priority before 'tak nak' merokok!
Chua: Adopt healthy lifestyle and avoid alcohol
Which is the bigger evil? Alcohol or cigarettes?
Which brings more harm? Alcohol or cigarettes?
They should have gone 'Tak Nak Arak' first!
I would like to propose for the administration to declare 'alcohol-free' establishment as well! Then apply the enforcement 'a la' On-the-spot fines for errant smokers
The Star Online > Nation
Wednesday June 1, 2005
Chua: Adopt healthy lifestyle and avoid alcohol
BY AUDREY EDWARDS
PUTRAJAYA: After trying to get Malaysians to stop smoking, the Health Ministry now wants to discourage them from consuming alcohol.
Saying “No” to booze is the latest component to be included in the ministry’s healthy lifestyle campaign, said Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek.
The other components are having healthy eating habits, an active lifestyle and stress management.
He said that while alcoholism was not yet a major problem in the country, consuming alcohol, especially excessively, could have serious repercussions on the health and safety of the people. These included a higher risk of contracting liver diseases and accidents occurring due to drink driving, he said in an interview yesterday.
Dr Chua said there was already a higher incidence of Malaysians (30%-40% of the population) having fatty acids in their liver and if they consumed alcohol, complications of the liver such as cancer and cirrhosis could occur.
There was also a high occurrence of Hepatitis B among the people and alcohol could aggravate their condition, he said.
Dr Chua added that alcohol could be a contributing factor to road accidents.
“In terms of accidents, we have one of the highest rates in the world at 25 deaths per 100,000.
“Last year, there were more than 6,000 deaths. Recklessness is influenced by drugs and alcohol, but we have not come up with the figures as yet,” he said.
In a report in The Star in April, federal traffic chief Senior Asst Comm II Datuk Gingkoi Seman Pancras said that Kuala Lumpur had the highest number of drink driving arrests so far this year, surpassing the figure for the whole of last year.
Up to April this year, 398 motorists had been booked for that offence in Kuala Lumpur, compared with 373 for the whole last year.
Dr Chua said that alcoholism was also an indication of mental stress, and people used alcoholism as an excuse for inappropriate acts such as wife or child abuse.
According to a World Health Organisation report last year, alcohol consumption was identified as contributing to disease, injury, disability and premature death more than any other risk factor in developing countries with low mortality.
The report also stated that alcohol was estimated to have caused 1.8 million deaths in 2000.
The Star Online > Nation
On-the-spot fines for errant smokers
Other News & ViewsCompiled by IZATUN SHARI, TAN SIN CHOW AND T. PERIASAMY
THOSE caught smoking in “no smoking” zones will be fined on the spot soon, Nanyang Siang Pau reported.
The daily quoted Health Ministry parliamentary secretary Lee Kah Choon as saying that the ministry's enforcement officers would come down hard on the culprits once the Tobacco Control Act was passed.
Lee also said the ministry had also suggested that pictures of smokers suffering from diseases be printed on cigarettes packs to highlight the risk of smoking.
He said the number of smokers in the country was increasing at an average of 50 people daily.
Lee said the second phase of the “Tak Nak” anti-smoking campaign would also promote healthy lifestyles and the need to maintain a balanced diet.
China Press front-paged the death of a lion dance troupe instructor in Kuala Lumpur, who was believed to have owed loan sharks money.
He died at a hospital on May 29 after being admitted seven days earlier.
He was allegedly forced to drink poison by loan sharks at his house after failing to settle debts on May 22.
This was only revealed after a nurse, who claimed that the instructor had related the incident to her before he died, lodged a police report.
However, the daily quoted his family members as saying that the instructor was sent to the hospital due to food poisoning.
Police have not ruled out the possibility of murder, saying that the cause of death had yet to be determined.
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