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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.
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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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.