Thread: smoking and the pub
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Old 28-10-2005, 13:25   #403
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Re: smoking and the pub
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Originally Posted by Salu
Here are some more frightening statistics. Worryingly though are the facts about teenagers. By allowing smoking in pubs we are hardly sending out preventative messages to our teenagers....We need to get serious about stopping smoking and stopping the habit being formed.

Off the top of my head there are something like 1000 admissions everyday to hospitals in the UK due to smoking related diseases.
These stats only go to back up my previous point about making smoking more and more unattractive sometimes has the opposite effect, especially when in a rebelling mood, i.e many teenagers. Think of the times trying to sneak a quick ciggie at school without being caught for instance.

Another very salient point. While in Europe and the USA the tobacco comapnies are finding it harder and harder to ply their trade, they don't just disappear. Rather they move to developing areas of the world where perhaps the effects are not so widely publicised or the health infrastructures not in place to advise and support. So a perceived benefit here may be having a detrimental effect elsewhere.
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