As the World Health Organization marks WorldNoTobaccoDay, Sweden is close to declaring itself 'smoke free'
Why Sweden Could Become One of the World’s First ‘Smoke-Free’ CountriesMagnus Andersson—TT News Agency via APSTOCKHOLM — Summer is in the air, cigarette smoke is not, in Sweden’s outdoor bars and restaurants.
Figures from the Public Health Agency of Sweden show the smoking rate has continued to fall since then, reaching 5.6% last year. Sweden has gone further than most to stamp out cigarettes, and says it’s resulted in a range of health benefits, including a relatively low rate of lung cancer. On Tuesday night, the terraces of Stockholm were full of people enjoying food and drinks in the late-setting sun. There was no sign of cigarettes, but cans of snus could be spotted on some tables. Between beers, some patrons stuffed small pouches of the moist tobacco under their upper lips.
Swedes are so fond of their snus, a distant cousin of dipping tobacco in the United States, that they demanded an exemption to the EU’s ban on smokeless tobacco when they joined the bloc in 1995.
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