Tobacco

At a conservative estimate, tobacco kills more than 650,000 people every year in the European Union alone. Many of these deaths are due to respiratory disease. Action needs to be taken in many forms to reduce this preventable morbidity and mortality.

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Smoking and the lungs

UK, Belgium, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, Spain and Sweden have banned smoking in the workplace, restaurants and bars.