Anti-smoking law: every sixth smoker quit smoking – the expert – to Pravda.Ru

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“VTsIOM tells us that 34% of Russians smoke . We have evidence of other successful polls, larger the sample. Thus, according to a study conducted by the Federal State Statistics Service together with the WHO, in 2012, of 20,000 respondents Russians admitted addiction to tobacco 39%. In 2014, VTsIOM was 35% in 2013 – 41%. That is, it may indicate that the VTsIOM wildest way walks sample. But even in their samples, is now 34% – the apparent decline “, – said Daria Halturina of PRAVDA.Ru reporter.

She stressed that this is a huge drop. “This is one of a record decline in such a short period as a whole for all countries of the world. So do not imagine that there was no reduction. Perhaps in the past year, it is not like in the past couple of years, but just imagine – one in six smokers quit smoking, “- said the expert.

According to Daria Halturin on these statistics affect primarily the ban on smoking in public places. “People inconvenient to smoke, they either drop out or smoke fewer cigarettes,” – she said.

Also, she added, influenced by higher prices and pictures advertising, which has ceased to attract new victims of smoking .

In response to a reporter’s question of PRAVDA.Ru that needs to be done to get people actively stretched to a healthy lifestyle, Daria Halturina said the need to raise the excise tax “at least to the level of Bulgaria and Romania” . In this case, she said, we really have to happen further decline, and there will be money in the budget that could be spend for health care.

“Smoking leads to the wildest diseases that something needs to be treated. In We totally underfunded oncology. We absurd situation where excise taxes on cigarettes are low, and then it turns out that a person with lung cancer, and people are selling an apartment, to treat it. Man can not throw with cancer. But the money is nowhere to take, if resources are limited “- said Darya Halturina in completing the conversation with the correspondent of PRAVDA.Ru.

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