Tue, Feb 07 2012
Photo: Georgi Kozhouharov
A ban on smoking in public places takes effect in Macedonia on January 1 2010, but faces the customary resistance from the hospitality industry and some MPs, while in Serbia, reports suggest there will be backdown on the ban.
Those who refused to pay the 20 leva fine were taken off the trains.
The term "sin tax" has been applied to excises on tobacco and liquor. In Bulgaria, the idea of taxing smoking to the hilt seems an idea that is overripe.
Team of scientists, including a Bulgarian professor, says that sunlight worsens the carcinogenic effect of tobacco.
Recent studies, including those by NASA, indicate the average global surface temperature since 1880 has gone up 0.8 degrees Celsius and is on course to continue rising by 0.1 degrees every decade.
EU negotiators are urging other parties at the COP17 climate talks in Durban to agree to a 'roadmap' that would lead to a climate treaty that would legally bind governments to cut emissions blamed for climate change.
Agriculture and rural areas in the Western Balkans: status update.
The world's deep-sea catch is steadily declining, and the high vulnerability of these fish populations and diverse marine ecosystems is well documented.
BGWEA has estimated that Bulgaria's installed renewable energy capacity will reach between 2000 MW and 3000 MW by 2020, given the current number of projects.
If you need to lie about your smoking that's the reason enough that its wrong.
Some time ago they discovered that smoking during pregnancy changes baby in dna-level. If you don't care about you, you should at least care about your own kid.
70% of smokers want to quit, it really is nonsense. People say they want to quit and lie simply so as not to get into a dispute with anti smokers.
Anti-tobacco campaigners use the same made up 70% figure at the same stage of every campaign in every country. Its only a matter of time before the penny drops with anyone with any sense.
If you are a smoker, and some health professional asks you if you'd like to quit, you avoid the inevitable anti-smoking lecture if you say yes. So, all this survey really proves is that 70% of smokers don't want to be preached at!
The service company I am working for employs 52 people, aged between 19 and 58. I carried out a small internal survey and found that 41 colleagues are habitual smokers, 25 ladies and 16 men. Out of them only 4 stated that they are seriously considering to stop. With all respect for the survey of the Greenwild Foundation, as you can see my findings indicate rather different percentages.