Czechs saying no to cigarettes?? Never!! / Cesi se vzdavaji koureni?? Nikdy!!

The Czech Republic “won” the 25th place out of 30 “competing” European countries regarding its smoking habits. The report included factors such as protection of non-smokers in public places, access to treatment for addicts, regulation of advertising as well as level of taxes on tobacco products. The countries that ranked even lower the CR were:

• Germany
• Austria
• Luxemburg

The author of the article, Ian Willougby, hopes that smoking will be banned all together and brings up a good point:”If the Irish can do it, if the Italians can do it, why can’t the Czechs do it?”

What do you think? Do you think that the Czechs can do it? I personally think that smoking is such a huge part of our rich coffee shop/pub culture that there is almost no hope. But than again, the ITALIANS could do it – I am still in a state of shock about that – the Czechs have no excuse…

CR: Ceska republika “vyhrala” 25. misto (ze 30 Evropskych statu) co se tyce koureni cigaret. Tyto statisticke udaje zahrnuji take cinitele jako je ochrana nekuraku na verejnych mistech, dostupnost lecebnych prostredku pro kuraky, regulace propagace tabakoveho prumyslu a danove poplatky na tabakove produkty. Evropske staty, ktere se zaradili dokonce i nize nez CR jsou Nemecko, Rakousko a Luxembursko. Novinar Radia Prahy Ian Willoughby sam doufa v to, ze se koureni zakaze a to se vsim vsudy. Take poukazuje: “Kdyz to mohli dokazat Irove a Italove, proc ne Cesi?” A co si myslite vy? Dokazou Cesi zit bez cigaret? Ja si osobne myslim, ze jelikoz koureni je obrovska cast nasi kavarnicke/hospodske natury, ze tato bitva je jaksi ztracena. Na druhou stranu ale, jestlize to mohli dokazat ITALOVE (!!) , tak my to muzeme dokazat take..

Source: http://www.radio.cz/en/issue/98634