The world breaks this habit, while we keep puffing away
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Oluşturulma Tarihi: Mayıs 31, 2006 12:04
The Turkish Health Ministry announced this week that Turkey loses 100 thousand people annually to illnesses related to cigarette smoking. Authorities from the ministry noted yesterday that while in the US over the last 20 years there has been a 30% drop in smoking, Turkey has shown a 80% increase in the same time period.
Said authorities: "The fact that we lose 100 thousand people to smoking annually is as though as have a plane crashing every day with 300 deaths, or 6 full buses flying over cliffs every day. It is as though an atom bomb was dropped in one of our cities." According to research by the EU statistics bureau "Eurostat," 37% of Turks smoke cigarettes, while 80% reportedly want cigarettes to be banned in all indoors public arenas.