Russia can prohibit the sale of tobacco to anyone who was born after 2014

About half of Russia's residents are dependent on cigarettes. According to statistics, almost 40 percent of the country's 143 million people regularly use tobacco products. To save the population from this habit, the Ministry of Health suggested rather radical measures.

New plan to fight smoking

The Ministry of Health of Russia has proposed a new plan to ban the sale of tobacco to all people born in 2015, according to a report published on the Russian news website Izvestia. If the law is enacted, the ban will be effective until 2033. This means that someday smoking can become illegal for all residents of Russia.

Russia, following the WHO convention aimed at fighting smoking, has taken huge steps to ban tobacco advertising and raise taxes on them. Also, smoking is prohibited in public places since 2013. At the beginning of last year, at a bus stop in Moscow, even a poster with the inscription "Smoking kills more people than Obama, although he kills a lot of people," appeared.

Such efforts have led to a certain reduction in the number of smokers, although people abandon old habits with difficulty. Statistics continue to say that 12% of children aged 15 smoke every day. Many also switched to smokeless wapping.

The toughest laws in the world

This law may be in one company with some of the most stringent in the world. Bhutan in Asia is a country where anti-smoking laws are considered to be the toughest in the world, as tobacco growing, collection, production, supply, distribution and sale are prohibited.

As for the rest of the world, 6 million people die from tobacco every year. 600 thousand of them are non-smokers, but they still breathe tobacco smoke, that is, they are passive smokers. Eighty percent of smokers in the world live in countries where income levels are low or medium.