This article explores the alarming health consequences of excessive sugar, tobacco, and alcohol consumption in Malaysia, highlighting the country's departure from religious guidelines promoting the avoidance of harmful substances. The author emphasizes the high rates of diabetes, obesity, and smoking-related deaths, drawing parallels to a religious journey gone astray. It also calls for religious authorities to address these issues and explores potential solutions, such as promoting research into safer nicotine delivery systems.
Individuals who smoke tobacco products increase their risk of death from stroke, coronary heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. – REUTERSPICtravellers have experienced at least one occasion when they set out on a route and yet unknowingly go off-track, only realising it when their senses tell them something is wrong.
Malaysians are also getting obese, with the prevalence of being overweight among adults standing at 50.1%. In Malaysia, 9.7% of deaths are due to obesity as an attributing risk factor. Resulting sicknesses include diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer. Has any religious authority recommended severe restrictions on the sale of foods laden with added sugar? Has it preachedNext on the list is tobacco, which is inhaled into the lungs with each breath. Tobacco use has been conclusively proven to be a definite cause of lung cancer.
There has also been an increase of 600% in the number of e-cigarette users over the past 12 years. Over this period, the prevalence of e-cigarette or vape use among those in the 15 to 24 age group jumped from 1.1% to 8.6%. We behave like the unthinking maid who did not stop the child from playing with fire because the master’s instruction was that the child must not play with water. He did not mention fire.
Non-Malay politicians are sometimes a disgrace to their own religion by campaigning on grounds of religious freedom for the right of non-Islamic shops to sell liquor without undue restrictions. Alcohol also kills or maims. Sept 2024: a company supervisor was sentenced to 10 years in jail for driving under the influence of alcohol, causing the death of another driver and leaving his three children with permanent disabilities. Aug 2024: two college students were killed when a 23-year-old motorist, believed to be driving under the influence of alcohol, skidded and entered the opposite lane. May 2024: a national kayaker had to be admitted to ICU after a drunk driver hit her motorcycle.
The next target is beer as drinkers tend to down one bottle or can after another, resulting in the alcohol intake matching that of spirits.
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