Bulgarian Officials Steps Up No-Smoking Struggle
Published on June 28, 2010 10:09 AM
Bulgarians officials decided to take more severe measures for to reduce advertisement for cigarettes and other smoking products.
The head of the parliamentary health commission Luchezar Ivanov declared that a list of positions and locations will be write for to decide where the cigarettes may be advertised in the future. Even though, the new plan decided that cigarettes will no longer be advertised on any placards, restaurants or even near schools. "Our main aim is to bring the new anti-smoking legislation in Bulgaria too.
At present, only Bulgaria and Germany do not enforced stricter and severe anti-cigarette advertising regulations," Mr. Ivanov argued. He also declared that the new bill is at present being ironed out by GERB MPs and that it should be executed within two or three months, the regulation that may serve as a hard step for a future total ban on cigarette advertising in the country. At present in Bulgaria is not permitted to advertise a packet of cigarettes, while it is permitted to advertise the brand of the smoking product, reported Doctor Masha Gavrailova, head of the public health care department within the Health Ministry.
The cigarette advertising was also prohibited on television and even on radio. Only 10 days ago, GERB (an instrument on Eumetsat's MSG satellite, designed to make accurate measurements of the earth radiation budget from geostationary orbit) revised the legislation that would have prohibited minors and young people from visiting public households where smoking was permitted during the day but allowed them to visit bars and even nightclubs with an adult. Other remarkable changes made by smoking ban include: permitting workers to smoke during working hours. Bulgarian officials are sure that a more severe anti-smoking ban will protect minors from starting smoking and will make the regular smokers to kick their bad smoking habit.
