Jump to full article: Barbados Daily Nation (bb), 2008-06-06
Author: PHILLIPPE AIMEY
Intro: MORE THAN 3 000 BOXES of cigarettes are sold at some retail outlets monthly, despite the constant appeals to stop smoking given the dangers associated with the habit.
At one West Coast service station for example, management reported that 3 600 boxes of cigarettes - and sometimes more - were sold every month.
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This comes as chief executive officer of the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Barbados, Adrian Randall, and president of the National Committee for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Dependency, Victor Roach, called for a ban on smoking in all public places.
Last Saturday was World No Tobacco Day with the theme Tobacco And The Youth, with both Randall and Roach voicing concerns not just for the smokers but for those around them who do not.
Both organisations have been seeking to pressure Government to introduce legislation banning smoking in public.
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