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Fri, Feb 10 2012
Bulgarians, at a pack a day, third among Europeans in smoking stakes
With Greeks in first place and Italians in second, Bulgarians are in third place - at a pack a day - among smokers in Europe, according to a European Commission initiative entitled Help - for a life without tobacco.
Figures for 2008 say that almost every third person between 10 and 19 smokes, as do half the pregnant women in Bulgaria.
Men make up 52.4 per cent of the just less than two million smokers in Bulgaria, a country with a population estimated at 7.7 million
Smoking is said to be the cause of about 20 per cent of deaths in Bulgaria.
The anti-smoking campaign was launched in 2007 and will continue over the next two years, focussing in particular on discouraging smoking among young people.
On March 5 2009, Bulgarian-language mass-circulation daily 24 Chassa said that excise hikes that are leading to cigarette price increases could see cigarette consumption in Bulgaria decrease by about 15 per cent.
Figures for 2008 say that almost every third person between 10 and 19 smokes, as do half the pregnant women in Bulgaria.
Men make up 52.4 per cent of the just less than two million smokers in Bulgaria, a country with a population estimated at 7.7 million
Smoking is said to be the cause of about 20 per cent of deaths in Bulgaria.
The anti-smoking campaign was launched in 2007 and will continue over the next two years, focussing in particular on discouraging smoking among young people.
On March 5 2009, Bulgarian-language mass-circulation daily 24 Chassa said that excise hikes that are leading to cigarette price increases could see cigarette consumption in Bulgaria decrease by about 15 per cent.
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Since November 20, the question of banning smoking in public areas and workplaces in Bulgaria depends solely on the speed of the country's bureaucratic and legislative machine. On that day the Government finally adopted a controversial decision to ban smoking in public places from June 1 2010. To make this ban effective, Parliament will now have to adopt amendments to the Public Health Act approved by the Cabinet and integrate them into Bulgaria's legislation. How long it will take Parliament to do that remains to be seen. But now, at least, the deadline for such a ban has been set.
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smokers are idiots... they are wasting their money to slowly kill themselves.. and they are very self centered to conaminate the air for the rest of the non-smokers.. Smokers say that they have a right to smoke,.. well we have a right to breathe clean air. You dont see us farting in your face.
99.8% of smokers DO NOT get lung cancer. My local pub has NO non smokers... rediculous. Not a godsend Tony - another nail in the coffin for democracy and the pub trade.
tony, i don't agree. i think a government imposed smoking ban is belittling and is the death of going-out. as a non-smoker, i've stopped enjoying, and ultimately visiting, places that impose total non-smoking rules. the smoking ban in public places is something that has been concocted by the politically correct left-wing thought-police. what's next? a ban on red meat? because "it is not good for you"?
i would like to decide for myself how i put an end to my live - by drinking and smoking if i so choose to, thank you very much!
besides, [...]
Read the full comment it has long been proven that those who live a long and happy live cost a lot more in health care then those who die of lung cancer at an early age.
uk smoking ban in public places is a godsend. much more pleasant to go out and socialise. there is nothing worse than being in a confined space with smokers when you do not smoke yourself. Seeing people ill with smoke related disease is not funny. Death from lung cancer is a poor way to die. why self-destruct? stop smoking and enjoy your food (better taste) and better, healthier lifestyle.