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Trends in smoking in Baltic countries, Finland and Russia (doc) 

Although smoking is a severe global problem, this assay concentrates on Baltic countries, Finland and Russia. In spite of correct direction of smoking prevalence in Finland, we still can't be proud of it. And as we see, tobacco products causes lot's of problems in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia too. . . .

The smoking prevalence is increasing in almost every developing country. The countries which were poorer some time ago and are now getting more rich will, of course, want to be as good as all the western countries. They also want to smoke. It's cool to smoke. But the rates should go down. Especially alarming is the all-time-increasing numbers of adolescents who are reported to smoke daily. Those numbers are growing also in Finland. The side effects of starting to use tobacco products are shown maybe only at middle-age. At first it is hard to notice the harmful effects. Finally, lung cancer is easily noticed.

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