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Yeah, a cigarette ad in Indonesia literally saying: “Don’t Quit”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking of tobacco and emerging markets: The tobacco industry has poured a ton of its resources into Indonesia. This nation of 250 million people has one of the highest smoking rates in the world at about 40 percent (70 million-plus smokers, compared to about 40-45 million smokers in the U.S.).<\/p>\n

And there are few if any restrictions on smoking, smoking advertising or packaging. In fact, you will find cigarette advertising literally right outside of schools in Indonesia.<\/p>\n

Emerging markets — really big emerging markets like Indonesia, the Philippines, India and pretty much all of South America and Africa — are the international tobacco industry’s solution to remaining a financial juggernaut despite the plummeting smoking rate and stricter laws regulating tobacco in the West. In fact, Indonesia is on track with its lack of any semblance of regulation and its huge population to become the biggest tobacco market in the world.<\/p>\n

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Not even subtly using sex to sell cigarettes in Indonesia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From the Southeast Asia Globe:<\/a><\/p>\n

The end result is a looming public health disaster. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Indonesia has one of the highest male smoking rates in the world at 67% \u2013 and the number of women lighting up is rising fast as well, partly due to role models such as the popular, chain-smoking fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti breaking down gender norms. The impacts are already huge, with the WHO estimating that smoking claims about 425,000 Indonesian lives each year \u2013 nearly a quarter of the country\u2019s annual deaths. Some media outlets have even begun referring to the country as \u2018Tobaccoland\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And Indonesia is a country with a depressing and well-publicized issue with childhood smoking.<\/a><\/p>\n

From a Quartz Media article:<\/a><\/p>\n

And it is no accident either, according to Mark Hurley, the Indonesian director at the\u00a0Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cThese tactics are used by international giants like Philip Morris and Indonesian brands alike because tobacco companies rely on luring in youth to replace those who die or quit smoking,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s part of their deadly playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n

A\u00a0survey<\/a>\u00a0conducted in 2016 found 85% of schools surveyed in five Indonesian cities were surrounded by tobacco advertisements.\u00a0And according to Purnomo from the smokers\u2019 rights group, their campaigns appear to be working.<\/p>\n

Experts say the tobacco companies\u2019 corporate social responsibility programs are merely a strategy to further entrench their products into society and do little social good.\u00a0\u201cThrough their CSR activities, the Indonesian tobacco companies have precisely ignored the negative impacts of tobacco,\u201d said a\u00a0recent report<\/a>\u00a0from the\u00a0Online Journal of Health Ethics.<\/p>\n

It is tobacco\u2019s entrenched status in Indonesian society that makes fighting tobacco so difficult for campaigners, who are often labelled agents of US pharma giants trying to bring down Indonesia\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n

… Philip Morris International remains confident about Indonesia.\u00a0The company\u2019s 2016\u00a0investor day presentation<\/a>\u00a0(pdf)\u00a0said Indonesia shows \u201cfavourable market demographics over the long term.\u201d Another slide was titled,\u00a0\u201cIndonesia: Positives results from recent new launches.\u201d<\/p>\n

It seems the tobacco industry is counting on Jakartans like 19-year-old Ayu\u00a0<\/strong>(who like many Indonesians goes by one name), who says she is too addicted to quit and will continue to smoke despite the harms.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy friends all smoke, my colleagues all smoke. The whole damn city smokes,\u201d she says.\u00a0\u201cHow am I ever going to quit?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Speaking of tobacco and emerging markets: The tobacco industry has poured a ton of its resources into Indonesia. This nation of 250 million people has one of the highest smoking rates in the world at about 40 percent (70 million-plus smokers, compared to about 40-45 million smokers in the U.S.). And there are few if … Continue reading Indonesia, still the “Disneyland of smoking”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[809,755,310],"tags":[811,756,858],"class_list":["post-3998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-philip-morris-interntional","category-third-world-smoking","tag-indonesia","tag-philip-morris-international","tag-third-world-smoking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2013_06_10_indonesia.jpg?fit=302%2C403&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-12u","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3868,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3868","url_meta":{"origin":3998,"position":0},"title":"Heartbreaking photo essay tells the story of Indonesia’s smoking children … thank you Philip Morris","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"April 24, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"A heartbreaking story. 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