Comments on: Anti Smoking Campaign Takes Off in South Korea

By: ayesha

ayesha — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:56:24 +0000

strangely enough, i was in korea in november 2010, & there was a lot of people smoking in the streets i had to cover my nose !!!
i really think they should do like us in UAE & ban smoking in all public places..

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By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 05:04:48 +0000

I seem to be the only person smoking a cigarette while walking the streets in Seoul Korea…is this taboo and something I should not be doing while walking the street?

By: Maria Surma Manka

Maria Surma Manka — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:12:06 +0000

Gavin, this is really interesting, especially the peer-to-peer messages about smoking. I’m involved in a campaign in Minnesota called Respect My Ride, which encourages teens to pledge their cars smoke-free. Students used videos to get their messages across too (http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=500404F425CFDE71 is the playlist), so it’s great to learn about what other people are doing around the world. Thanks for the post!

By: sm hudson

sm hudson — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:31:05 +0000

This is really encouraging. According to a family friend who has practiced medicine for over 40 years, cigarette smoking (and the very dangerous second hand smoke) is directly attributable to a number of serious health risks, including the most well known, cancer, heart disease and asthma in both smokers and children of smokers. After years of tobacco companies lying and lobbying to keep their profits strong, groups of people here in the U.S. finally started filing organized class lawsuits for the illness and deaths attributable to these companies’ products. Government sponsored educational adds and eventual bans on public area smoking have also helped to reduce the polluted lives and living spaces cigarette products cause. The tobacco companies, seeing their costs rise and their profits fall, significantly increased their marketing efforts to the youths of Asian, African and South American countries. I am really happy that news articles like this one indicate that the world’s youth and their governments are fighting back and rejecting this extremely harmful drug.