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A total ban on smoking during working hours will make smoking a dying habit in Stavanger municipality, and will produce good results,” say researchers.
Jump to full article: Aftenbladet (no), 2008-09-26
Intro: Stavanger municipality can probably expect to see a 10 per cent decline in the number of smokers, if town counsellor’s proposal is implemented by the end of next year.
”The great majority will abide by the ruling. A minority will be even more bound to their smoking habit in order to win back their freedom to smoke,” says research leader, Karl Erik Lund from Sirus (The State Institute for Drug Research)
Lund is one of the world’s leading tobacco experts.
Together with 14 tobacco researchers from all over the world, he has documented the effect of stricter smoking regulations, as an assignment from the World Health Organization (WHO). The final report will be presented next year at a world conference in India.
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