Residents of Moscow will smoke as usual or even more on the World No-Tobacco Day that is marked May 31.
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Muscovites to Smoke As Usual on World No-Tobacco Day
Residents of Moscow will smoke as usual or even more on the World No-Tobacco Day that is marked May 31, RIA Novosti reported based on the poll held in the streets of the city.
“I will smoke, and even more than usual. Genuinely, what a No-Tobacco Day? What it’s all about?” a middle-aged man posed a rhetoric question when buying cigarettes in one of the Moscow outlets.
“It won’t affect me absolutely,” a young woman was more than explicit.
According to statistics, 65 percent of men and 30 percent of women smoke in Russia. Some 63 percent of non-adults are smokers. Each second pregnant woman smokes.
In the age group of 16 to 17 years, 67.7 percent of boys are smokers, and the share of smoking girls is relatively the same. More than 55 percent of teenagers are subject to passive smoking at home and 72 percent are the passive smokers outdoors. No more than a half of them understand that passive smoking injures their health. Russia is the third in terms of tobacco consumption, yielding only to India and China in this indicator.
www.kommersant.com
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