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• Falklands Councillors reject heavy smoking label 

Some members of the Falkland Islands Legislative Council, who are currently pondering whether or not smoking should be banned from public places in the Islands, today reacted negatively to the suggestion in a Mercopress report on this subject (Thursday 10th August) that the Falklands is “a community of heavy smokers”, something that Councillor Mike Summers referred to as “a slur on our good behaviour”.

The Falkland Islands Government Medical Department is currently carrying out a survey on the smoking habits and has circulated questionnaires to everybody over the age of sixteen on the hospital’s database.

According to Councillor Mike Rendell, who holds the Public Health Portfolio, while some 1800 of these questionnaires have not yet been returned and probably never will be, the 800 completed questionnaires received indicate that just over 24% have declared themselves as smokers.

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