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Intro: Passive smoking – there's nothing passive about it is the motto of the campaign promoted Monday by the Macedonian Ministry of Health and USAID.
Minister of Health Vlado Dimov said that passive is not less dangerous than the active smoking.
"In direction to decrease in smoking the Government adopted a strategy for tobacco control and the Law on Protection against Smoking which is due for implementation in January 1, 2006. The Government also adopted the changes in the Health Care Law for increase in the price of cigarettes, " Dimov said. . . .
Campaign objectives are to increase knowledge of the major health effects of passive smoking, specifically regarding children, to encourage smokers not to expose others to the damaging health effects of their smoking, to encourage non-smokers to be less accepting of passive smoking, to increase the number of smokers likely to seriously consider quitting or making a quit attempt and to encourage ex-smokers not to start smoking again.
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