{"id":26347,"date":"2009-06-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dejusticia.org\/cigarettes-black-smoke-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2017-04-11T07:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:31:07","slug":"cigarettes-black-smoke-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.dejusticia.org\/en\/cigarettes-black-smoke-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigarette&#8217;s black smoke in Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESTA NOCHE SE SABR\u00c1 QU\u00c9 TIPO DE humo se respira en el Congreso colombiano. Puede ser que haya humo blanco para dos leyes que salvar\u00edan la vida de miles de fumadores activos o pasivos que est\u00e1n destinados a morir de c\u00e1ncer de pulm\u00f3n y otros males. Pero puede ser que el humo que termine saliendo sea el negro de los cigarrillos de las empresas tabacaleras, que tienen montado un poderoso lobby contra esas leyes.<\/p>\n<p>Como se sabe, por el esc\u00e1ndalo sobre supuestos sobornos de las tabacaleras a congresistas, los proyectos de ley que se definen hoy buscan limitar la venta, publicidad y consumo de cigarrillos. No se trata de una cruzada prohibicionista como la del Gobierno con la dosis personal, sino de esfuerzos sensatos por regular el consumo, que es lo que hay que hacer.<\/p>\n<p>Un proyecto del senador Jos\u00e9 Name busca convertir en ley la afortunada regulaci\u00f3n que expidi\u00f3 el Ministerio de Protecci\u00f3n Social el a\u00f1o pasado y que proh\u00edbe fumar en espacios cerrados. La norma ha sido todo un \u00e9xito: gracias a ella, hoy es posible trabajar, rumbear o salir a comer sin chupar el humo del fumador de al lado, y hasta los due\u00f1os de restaurantes y bares la apoyan, porque la clientela ha aumentado.<\/p>\n<p>El otro proyecto, de la senadora Dilian Francisca Toro, es a\u00fan m\u00e1s importante. Porque da tres pasos que, seg\u00fan la Organizaci\u00f3n Mundial de la Salud (OMS), son esenciales para combatir lo que \u00e9sta ha llamado la \u201cepidemia global del tabaquismo\u201d, que cobra m\u00e1s de 5 millones de vidas al a\u00f1o (80% de ellas en pa\u00edses pobres como Colombia). Mejor dicho: m\u00e1s muertes anuales que las producidas conjuntamente por el sida, la tuberculosis y la malaria, y miles de veces m\u00e1s que las que causar\u00e1 la bendita gripa AH1N1).<\/p>\n<p>La primera medida del proyecto de Toro es prohibir la publicidad de cigarrillos, incluyendo el mercadeo agresivo que usan las tabacaleras en eventos deportivos y otros espacios para enganchar a nuevos consumidores, entre ellos los j\u00f3venes. La segunda es incluir en las cajetillas fotos expl\u00edcitas que muestren el da\u00f1o causado por el cigarrillo, y no s\u00f3lo letreritos ilegibles e in\u00fatiles que digan que \u201cfumar es nocivo para la salud\u201d. La \u00faltima es prohibir la venta de cigarrillos sueltos, que son los que pueden comprar los adolescentes y los consumidores de pa\u00edses pobres.<\/p>\n<p>Si hay humo blanco para estas iniciativas, el Congreso no estar\u00e1 haciendo nada distinto que cumplir con las obligaciones que asumi\u00f3 Colombia al firmar, el a\u00f1o pasado, el Convenio Marco de la OMS para el Control del Tabaco. Se trata de un consenso mundial, como lo muestra el hecho de que 169 pa\u00edses lo hayan suscrito.<\/p>\n<p>Si los proyectos se hunden, el Congreso quedar\u00e1 rodeado de un humo negro de sospechas. Como lo dijo Name, \u201cno es gratis que hayan hundido 22 proyectos antitabaco en el Congreso\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>El lobby de la industria parece estar surtiendo efecto: al proyecto de Name le colgaron dos micos que lo hacen in\u00fatil y permiten volver a fumar en espacios cerrados. Y no hay que olvidar la ins\u00f3lita carta que el Viceministro de Agricultura le envi\u00f3 hace unos meses a la Comisi\u00f3n Nacional de Televisi\u00f3n para defender la publicidad de cigarrillos en horarios nocturnos.<\/p>\n<p>Para despejar cualquier duda, es fundamental que la votaci\u00f3n de los proyectos de ley sea nominal, como lo pidieron Name y Toro. As\u00ed se conocer\u00e1 c\u00f3mo vot\u00f3 cada congresista. Y se sabr\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n si los parlamentarios escucharon la contundente advertencia de la OMS en el informe global m\u00e1s completo sobre el tema: \u201cTodas las epidemias tienen una forma de contagio\u2026 En el caso de la epidemia del tabaquismo, no se trata de un virus, una bacteria u otro microorganismo, sino de la industria (tabacalera) y su estrategia comercial\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight we will know what kind of smoke is breathed in the colombian Congress. There may be white smoke for two laws that would save the lives of thousands of active or passive smokers that are destined to die of lung cancer and other diseases. 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