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In this country, even the doctors and politicians who warn of the evils of nicotine are smokers themselves.
Jump to full article: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (uk), 2004-12-09
Author: Karine Ter-Saakian in Yerevan (CRS No. 265, 08-Dec-04
Intro: The World Health Organisation, WHO, estimates that 63.7 per cent of Armenian men are smokers, which makes them the heaviest puffers in Europe. While there are no reliable statistics for the smaller number of women smokers, their number is growing every year...
"It's a national disgrace," Grant Vardanian told IWPR. That's a surprising comment, coming from a business tycoon with a monopoly on Armenia's tobacco industry. "That's what I say, even me, and those are my advertising billboards hanging there! Until now, our legislators have failed to pass a law prohibiting cigarette advertisements in public places."
Nonetheless, it was Vardanian and a group of other businessmen directly involved in the production and distribution of cigarettes who earlier this year led opposition to an anti-smoking bill in parliament.
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