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this thing kills 8 million people every
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year only here in the youth tobacco is
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responsible for over
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700,000 deaths every year making this
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the leading cause of preventable death I
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have to admit that until couple of
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months ago I smoked two almost every
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time that I was going out with my
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friends I was trying to convince them to
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smoke Shisha thinking that this was
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something harmless but actually after a
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chbt search I found out that it's
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actually terrible for your health and
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even worse than normal cigarettes after
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I found this out I just quit completely
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apart from being a former smoker I'm
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also a member of the European Parliament
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and I have realized that it's not that
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simple to regulate tobacco it's very
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well known that the tobacco industry is
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very powerful as so much money is
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involved in selling this drug and
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because there are so much money involved
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their lobbying power is very influential
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across political institutions it is true
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that here in the European Union the
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tobacco lobin since 2021 has been
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limited under the framework of the
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European Union transparency register
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this register requires the lobes to
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disclose their activities and funding
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aiming to increase transparency and
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reduce their influence and of course
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some people are avoiding to register
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this and this is corruption there are
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many options to help the society quit
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smoking like limiting more its use
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taxing the cigarettes more using
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communication to inform people how bad
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it is or even Banning it completely but
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honestly I don't know what we have to do
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and if we need to do anything to reduce
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cig
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consumption let me know in the comments
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below what you think and how we should
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tackle the problem if you think that we
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should
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