VietNamNet Bridge – A report on the prevalence of tobacco smoking published by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2015 indicated that 47.1 per cent of Vietnamese adults (aged 15 and above) were smokers. That number translated to more than 20 million smokers in the country, or nearly one out of five Vietnamese, despite numerous awareness campaigns and measures taken by both society and the Government in recent years to educate the population about the harmful effects of smoking on health. When asked whether they were aware of the harmful effects of smoking, many smokers said they would continue anyway, even knowing all the bad things it may do to their health. It would seem that just simply telling people that smoking is bad isn’t going to be enough. It’s not that they don’t know that smoking kills. It just means that it will take a lot more to get people to quit than just telling them that smoking will kill them someday. Many of my foreign friends who visited Viet Nam said one of the most “pleasant surprises” about Viet Nam was the price of cigarettes. “Twenty-thousand Viet Nam dong (US$1) for a pack of 20. This is only…
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