Anti-tobacco campaign starts in Moscow today, in the International Day of No Smoking. It includes massive promotional campaign maybe followed by prohibitive measures.
      
      Many Moscow cafes and have responded request of Deputies and today, on the November, 18, smoking there is prohibited. Moreover, some of them are going to follow recommendations of Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and prolong the prohibition for a week.
      
      Moreover, organizers of the action Give Up Smoking Today have in plans to carry out a massive promotional campaign: PSa reel will be demonstrated at cinemas before the show, as well as on TV. Biilboards with anti-smoking propaganda will fill the city.
      
      The authorities are going to take some prohibitive measures, especially to legalize smoking ban in all the government institutions, exhibition halls belonging to the city and plats in condominiums.
      
      Moreover, the officials believe that increasin the excise duties can help with solving the smoking problem in Russia. According to some data, Russia is one of the hard-smoking countries.
      
       echo.msk.ru
Author: Yulia Buzykina