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Jump to full article: The Southern Times (New Era Corp.) (na), 2011-05-30
Author: Laura Saarinen
Intro: The Cancer Association of Namibia (CAN), Medscheme and Namibia Health Plan will run a campaign to decrease the health problems that smoking causes for people.
The "Stop Smoking Today" cooperation starts tomorrow on World No Tobacco Day. The aim of the campaign is to remind people of all the ill-effects that tobacco has. Reinette Koegelenberg, the chief executive officer of the Cancer Association of Namibia, is especially worried about second-hand smoking.
"If you smoke, please do it outside. Otherwise children and non-smokers get exposed to all the ill effects of tobacco. We all know this, it has been published many, many times before, but it still happens. If one person in the café is smoking, it affects every customer's health. This is the problem we want to abolish," Koegelenberg says.
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