Doubt about a smoke-free Norway
The vision about a future smoke-free Norway is less than realistic, says Chief researcher Karl Erik Lund at the Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research.The number of daily smokers in Norway is in the process of falling to below 20%, and Lund believes a realistic goal would be around 10 per cent.
This is around the same level as among health personnel in Western nations, Lund writes in the last issue of the Norwegian Medical Journal.
- We will have to regard smoking as a chronic disease that will need life-long medication, Lund writes.
Source: NRK/Norway Post
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