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November 11, 2007
The end of the happy days of smoking cessation
Waldemar Ingdahl reports on the Eudoxa harm reduction BBS from the SRNT conference in Madrid about a speech given by Swedish researcher Karl Olov Fagerström.
Read more about it in Past, present and future in smoking- the Swedish example.
Fagerström said that when you have such a high degree of the population smoking, as in the countries where snus is banned, a politician or a public health official may get an impression that quitting seems easy. Fagerstrom noted that it is not random which smoker goes out of the smoker population.
Those that can quit easily, have either quit or are in the process of quitting. When you are starting to reach Sweden’s low numbers, you get caught in the fact that the "easy-quitters" have quit and the government’s tobacco policies suddenly do not seem to be efficient. That is because the hard-core of smokers are not only smokers
Posted by Waldemar at November 11, 2007 04:30 PM