Citizens of BiH daily tobacco consumed 3.3 million BAM!
Citizens of BiH daily tobacco spend an average of 3.3 million marks , as compared to 2012th year increase of 100,000 KM latest statistics show .
According to figures released by the World Tobacco Atlas , a smoker from BiH average year 2261 Blow cigarette , or 114 box .
According to the latest data from the Agency for Statistics , our country has 3,843,000 citizens , so we come to the conclusion that the BiH population annually spends more than 434 million packs of cigarettes per day or 1.9 million packages . If you take into account that the average packet of cigarettes costs about 2.74 KM citizens in BiH daily tobacco consume slightly less than 3.3 million, announced the Independent newspaper .
In Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday marked the 31st January , the National Day of smoke and Stella Stojisavljević , physician services of social medicine at the Institute of Public Health of the RS , said that the RS 28.7 percent of the adult population smokes daily .
Stojisavljević specifies that among smokers , more than half of those who smoke 20 or more cigarettes a day , and the highest number of daily smokers was 55 to 64 years of age .
When it comes to the smoking ban law , Darko Markovic , national coordinator for tobacco control in RS , says that he is the same as in the EU , but unfortunately not implemented properly .
Markovic stressed that the EU or Canada, the laws in this area are strictly observed .
" And when we wrote that a person who is caught smoking in a no penalty 100 KM in the restaurant penalty is 400 KM and upward , but , unfortunately , the law is not implemented properly ," Markovic said at a news conference in Banja Luka , on the occasion of the National Day of smoke .
He said that smoking addiction, and that nicotine in the brain causes the same effects as cocaine .
" The combustion of a cigarette produces about 4,000 harmful substances that attack human health , of which more than 40 cancer-causing substances ," warns Markovic .
He stressed that the best effect to reduce the number of smokers in increasing the price of cigarettes , which is confirmed by the data of the World Health Organization .
" In all countries where the price of cigarettes is less high number of smokers ," said Markovic .
Alen Seranic , Senior Specialist in Public Health at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare , noted that smoking , according to the World Health Organization , is one of the most important public health problems , and that a year worldwide die from the effects of smoking between four and five million people .
According to a survey of population health from 2011th The average period of smoking was 20.2 years , and approximately two-thirds of daily smokers smoke more than 20 cigarettes a day .
Sociologists believe that the increased number of smokers can justify the pace of life and the problems that citizens face every day .
" A lot of stress makes us reach for cigarettes , because we provide five minutes of calm , no matter what they are bad for health ," said Biljana Milosevic , sociologist , published by the Independent newspaper .
- 1 Feb, 2014
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