“More smokers in Denmark”

“For the first time in 20 years increases the number of smokers in Denmark, according to a survey of the smoking habits as the authority Sundhetsstyrelsen presents today, write the Policy.”

“2016 smoked 21.1 per cent of the danes, a figure that 2018 was 23.1 percent, a statistically significant increase. At organization anti-cancer Bekæmpelse, which cooperates with the Swedish cancer foundation, is the project manager for the tobacco prevention worker, Niels Them Kjær, horrified.”

“It is appalling, that we also in the future will see many danes who get cancer,” he says.”

“Now he wants to see higher prices, less advertising for cigarettes and more non-smoking environments.”

“– We can see that it had significance for our neighbors, ” he says.”