KNMG doctors Federation wants to ban the sale of cigarettes in supermarkets, gas stations and book shops.
The sale of tobacco would be limited to only small tobacco shops, claims the KNMG tobacco control today in the Position, with which the doctors the Government calls to take action against smoking.
Doctors want a non-free society and believe that anti-smoking measures so far to little effect. It is therefore high time for far-reaching measures. So they plead for a hefty increase in excise duty on tobacco. ' We have to prevent children and adolescents smoke. Growing up in a smoke-free environment contributes to this. In concrete terms, this means that school squares, sports fields, playgrounds, amusement parks and cars should be non-smoking ', the KNMG.
These are drastic measures, but the Federation is justified: "smoking is a verslaviging should also be that way must be fought '. According to the doctors, smoking is the most important preventable cause of illness and death in Netherlands. Per year death twenty thousand people to the effects of smoking.
Nineteen thousand Dutch people get annual cancer by smoking. Also second-hand smoke is very harmful. One hundred children a day start smoking.
http://www.parool.nl/ By MALIKA SEVIL photo: REUTERS
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