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Smoking is definitely bad for you. Inhaling second hand smoke is
even worse. However, it is something difficult to stop a part of the
population who smokes to "just give it up". Read some of the
articles below and form your own opinion. This is how SmokeAway can
help everybody.
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- Children's loss of autonomy over smoking: the global youth tobacco survey
Published Online First 25 November 2010
The prevalence of lost autonomy was 40% among subjects who smoked 1 or 2 days/month and 41% among subjects who averaged less than one cigarette/day and increased in a dose-response pattern. Regression models derived from the Cyprus data were replicated by the Greek data.
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- Smoking ban ‘too severe’, say MPs
Published on October 16, 2010
According to DISY MP Andreas Themistocleous, who prepared the proposal, the current ban is not being adhered to, with members of the public smoking freely in entertainment venues – especially bars and nightclubs - in direct violation of the law, which came into effect in January this year.
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