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Seventy per cent of Bulgarian smokers wanted to quit, survey says

Thu, Nov 19 2009 17:28 CET byThe Sofia Echo staff 1763 Views 5 Comments
Seventy per cent of Bulgarian smokers wanted to quit, survey says

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More than 70 per cent of smokers in Bulgaria wanted to give up smoking, Yulia Medichkova of the Greenwild Foundation was quoted by Bulgarian news agency BTA as saying on November 19 2009.

Medichkova presented the results of a one-year campaign entitled The Culture of Breathing. Over 50 per cent of Bulgarians approved of increased restrictions on smoking that will be introduced by mid-2010. Bulgaria ranks third in the world in terms of number of smokers, after Japan and Greece, Medichkova said.

What was more worrying, according to another survey released by the Health Ministry on November 17 2009, was that every second pregnant woman in Bulgaria smoked during pregnancy.

Smoking during pregnancy was considered extremely damaging to unborn babies' health, as the baby risks being born with a lower weight and higher risk of disease.

According to the survey, 52.4 per cent of men in Bulgaria smoked, compared to 38.1 per cent of women.

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Anonymous :/ Tue, Nov 24 2009 15:27 CET
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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.

Anonymous TimS Sun, Nov 22 2009 22:27 CET
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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.

Anonymous Andy Sun, Nov 22 2009 21:22 CET
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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.

Anonymous Moi Sat, Nov 21 2009 21:21 CET
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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!

Anonymous Cat Ballou Fri, Nov 20 2009 11:36 CET
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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.

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