There is nothing cool about smoking

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Globally, authorities have intensified anti-smoking campaigns to preserve citizens’ health and save tax-payers millions, if not billions in the long term.

Globally, authorities have intensified anti-smoking campaigns to preserve citizens’ health and save tax-payers millions, if not billions in the long term. Although the tobacco industry pays some taxes, the costs of smoking-related issues and illnesses exceed this tax revenue. As tobacco still kills millions every year, control strategies must continue. Advertising bans, plain packaging, smoke-free environments, quit programmes and education have proven effective. The number of smokers in many countries has declined. In low- and middle-income countries, however, tobacco marketing now targets women and adolescents, even school children, to compensate for shrinking traditional markets where citizens recognise smoking as a cause of lung cancer and deadly health issues like stroke, heart disease, emphysema, aneurysms, low infant birth weight and asthma.

There is nothing cool about smoking

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