To Fight Smoking Addiction, Price of Cigarettes Must Go Up

To Fight Smoking Addiction, Price of Cigarettes Must Go Up: Armenian
Healthcare Ministry

Tert.am
14:20 – 06.02.10

In RA Deputy Minister of Healthcare Tatul Hakobyan’s opinion, the best
way to fight a smoking addiction is to raise the price of cigarettes.

`In Europe, one pack of cigarettes is sold for 5 dollars or 5 euro,
whil here [in our country], it’s quite cheap,’ said Hakobyan during a
press conference yesterday.

The deputy minister said that though there exists a national program
on combatting smoking, it hasn’t received the expected results.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

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