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• Smoking kills 33,000 Romanians every year 

In Romania there are nearly 6.5 M smokers (25 to 44 years of age) and 33,000 of them are killed every year by their vice that is the second global cause of death, the President of the National Anti-Drug Agency (ANA), Pavel Abraham, stated during a press conference marking the International Non-Smoking Day, yesterday.

According to a survey conducted by the European Commission in 2007, smoking is responsible for 75 per cent of heart strokes in smokers under the age of 50 and for 30 per cent of the deaths caused by the various forms of cancer.

The ANA official noted that the survey in question also found that most smokers, including in Romania, start smoking before the age of ten, mainly because of the insistent tobacco product advertising.

The same study shows that Romania and Austria are the least open to the introduction of smoking bans

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