Description
By Laws 3370/2005, 3730/2008 and 3868/2010 we are targeting the total ban on smoking in closed public spaces in Greece, limiting youth access to tobacco products, improving the effectiveness of warning signs on tobacco products, strengthening of prohibitions on promotion and presentation, raising taxes and prices of tobacco products to reduce demand and enacting actors of protection and control for the use of tobacco. Moreover we are promoting and supporting measures and actions to improve the accurate information of the population and stop smoking and cessation of existing smokers.
Statement
We would like to raise our voices against calls and actions to ban smoking in pubs, clubs and restaurants. Many people believe that the dangers of smoking and passive smoking are currently being exaggerated to the point of hysteria. The risks of passive smoke have never been proven beyond meaningless levels in a small minority of studies - wildly varying estimates of hundreds or thousands of deaths are based not on body counts but statistical projections.
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By Laws 3370/2005, 3730/2008 and 3868/2010 we are targeting the total ban on smoking in closed public spaces in Greece, limiting youth access to tobacco products, improving the effectiveness of warning signs on tobacco products, strengthening of prohibitions on promotion and presentation, raising taxes and prices of tobacco products to reduce demand and enacting actors of protection and control for the use of tobacco. Moreover we are promoting and supporting measures and actions to improve the accurate information of the population and stop smoking and cessation of existing smokers.
Statement
We would like to raise our voices against calls and actions to ban smoking in pubs, clubs and restaurants. Many people believe that the dangers of smoking and passive smoking are currently being exaggerated to the point of hysteria. The risks of passive smoke have never been proven beyond meaningless levels in a small minority of studies - wildly varying estimates of hundreds or thousands of deaths are based not on body counts but statistical projections.
