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The Bureau of Public Health of the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, in cooperation with four elementary schools from Mostar started a campaign to mark 31 January – No Smoking Day. The official slogan of the campaign is “No Smoking – Life at Its Fullest”. The campaign is organized under the Orkdal project, with support by the Nansen Dialogue Centre Mostar.
The central event of the campaign took place at the Spanish Square in Mostar. The campaign aims to promote healthy lifestyles free of tobacco and promote the citizens’ right to clean air – free of tobacco smoke.
The past research conducted by the Bureau of Public Health, 55% of the population in the Canton are active smokers, 25% of whom are heavy smokers (consume more than 20 cigarettes daily).
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t. Smuggled cigarettes occupy 25% to 80% share from the markets of Southeastern European states, and 40% of the cigarettes at the Macedonian market had been imported illegally, a publication in today’s Romanian Gandul newspaper reads. According to the edition, Albania ranks first in smuggled cigarettes with a share of 80%, followed by Bosnia and Herzegovina with 47%, Macedonia – 40%, Bulgaria – 38%, Serbia and Montenegro – 37%, and Romania and Croatia – 24%.
The parliament of Bosnia's Serb Republic on Thursday passed laws banning smoking in public places, the advertisement of tobacco products and their sale to minors.
Deputies agreed to let cafes and bars remain smoking areas, but banned smoking entirely in schools, hospitals, government and buildings, theaters, restaurants and public transport. . . .
Serb Republic Health Minister Marin Kvaternik said one third of adults and 40 percent of high school graduates were smokers.
Many doubt the law will be enforced. Similar legislation was passed in 1998 in Bosnia's other region, the Muslim-Croat federation, but hardly anyone obeyed.
After the adoption of the Law on Excises, which the Government of Serbia, sent urgently to the Republic Parliament for consideration, the excises on gasoline and cigarettes will be increased, whereas the excises on certain domestic products and other fuels will be revoked.
Canada's peacekeepers are a living paradox. Our proudest exports, they remain unknown soldiers, doing jobs utterly unlike the iconic missions of the World Wars. This Remembrance Day, LEAH McLAREN meets the troops at Camp Drvar in Bosnia . . .
I brought a carton of Canadian cigarettes to Drvar in hopes of currying favour with the troops. I was sorely disappointed to find out that it is no longer 1945 in the army -- most young soldiers don't smoke. On the contrary, these guys are health nuts.
About 70 percent of the population in Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation smokes cigarettes, . . said Ajnija Omanic, head of the Muslim-Croat federation's institute for public health
Ten percent of the federation's teenagers and three percent of children under ten years of age smoke, she said.
Omanic also said that the low price of cigarettes, television and radio advertising campaigns, along with a general lack of awareness of the health hazards of smoking, contributed to such a high level of tobacco consumption.
Here and elsewhere in Bosnia, criminal gangs--using skills gained circumventing blockades and embargoes during the 1992-95 Bosnian war--are smuggling in thousands of cartons of untaxed cigarettes and unknown quantities of illegal drugs a week. . . This has fueled the rise of a wealthy criminal class that wields enormous political influence and annually diverts hundreds of millions of dollars in potential tax revenue to itself. [This graph only]
In a joint action to cut the smuggling chain through Bosnia, customs authorities seized 2.5 million cigarettes and 10,000 compact discs that illegally entered the country, officials reported Tuesday.
The enforcement sections of the Bosnian Serb and Muslim-Croat federation customs administrations raided a private house in southern Bosnia, about 55 miles south of Sarajevo. . . In the last four month or since the start of an overall campaign against corruption and smuggling, some 40 million cigarettes have been seized, preventing a revenue loss of $1.5 million dollars, Fergusson said.