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Jump to full article: Copenhagen Post (dk), 2002-10-03
Intro: The Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation sound the alarm about drinking and smoking - but will anybody listen?
just as a new report from the Ministry of Health is released, claiming that over 200,000 people in this country are in need of professional treatment to help them combat alcohol abuse, local councils are stressing the need for alcohol guidelines to be issued to schoolchildren. In addition, a WHO (World Health Organisation) conference in Copenhagen has warned that second-hand smoke, so called 'passive smoking,' significantly increases the risk of lung cancer for non-smokers. . .
In addition to the warnings of excessive drinking, the WHO presented some of the conclusions of an unreleased report in Copenhagen this week, which concludes that a non-smoking woman has a 20% greater chance of contracting lung cancer if her spouse smokes, and conversely, a male non-smoker has a 30% greater chance if his wife smokes. Non-smokers have a 16-19 percent increased risk of lung cancer by working alongside smoking colleagues.
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