Very disappointed in EU here! Such a disgusting habit that kills and leads to large quality of life loss later in life.
Needs to be severely reduced or banned altogether.
Seeing 15 year olds smoke is a huge societal failure.
Needs to be severely reduced or banned altogether.
Seeing 15 year olds smoke is a huge societal failure.
In most EU countries, anti-smoking campaigns are frequent, packs must show huge labels with death warnings, advertising is illegal, as well as smoking in public enclosed spaces.
Still, the trend is downward in all countries.
I'm more worried about the non smoker countries which the tobacco companies are seeing as new territories to conquer.
John Oliver did a good segment about that two years ago https://youtu.be/6UsHHOCH4q8?t=239
> Seeing 15 year olds smoke is a huge societal failure. Yes and no. General trends suggest they are smoking less and drinking less alcohol compared to previous generations. It probably just stands out more relative to the general population. Alas, youth is lost on the young :-)
society is burdened in the 50% chance scenario that they develop lung cancer, alongside other medical problems which smoking exacerbates as well as being a contributory factor to others.
To be more succinct, there's a large difference between a person requiring lengthy treatment for lung cancer(hospital + morgue) before ultimately dying compared to somebody dying due to old age(morgue).