The world day of refusal of smoking is marked every Thursday November.
One year ago in Slavyansk to this date city public organisation "Сприяння" in cooperation with student's parliament of faculty of preschool education and practical psychology СГПУ carried out the action on an exchange of cigarettes for disks, calendar cards, the booklets, self-glued pictures. Has financed the student's action Fund of the population of the United Nations in Ukraine.
Present «the third Thursday» has coincided with quarantine in connection with a flu, therefore antinicotinic youth actions in Slavyansk is not expected. At the same time the director of the Slavic city centre of social services for children, a family and Vera Pavlova youth has explained that propagation of a healthy way of life and work under the prevention of any negative phenomena in the youth environment is conducted constantly. In educational institutions talks, lectures are given. Are switched to children's and teenage improving health resorts in the summer.
In the Center of social services on this question it is collected enough information. It is possible to address individually, and everything that is necessary, will be given. Center phone: 3-45-54 (from 8:00 to 17:00 hours, per the working days).
In Slavyansk is 11 booths specialising on sale of cigarettes. Whether their network will extend further – it is not known: according to the chief of department of regulation of trade relations of Julia Kolomiets, quantity of shops where cigarettes are on sale, in a city it is enough. However, the lawful bases to prevent installation of new stalls, at executive committee are not present. The Indispensable condition – similar shops should not settle down more close than in 150 metres from educational institutions
Friday, 20 November 2009
Tuesday, 10 November 2009
45 billion in wind
Strangely enough, the country's financial crisis, and 45 billion tenge, literally lying on the ground, no one wants to bend down and pick up!
Coalition "For Kazakhstan, free from tobacco smoke", which unites more than 720 organizations and 42 000 individuals invited to the president in a video. Coalition members urged to increase tobacco excise taxes. Until now, foreign tobacco companies, fully control the production of cigarettes in Kazakhstan, happily off with only a cosmetic increase in taxation.
According to the coalition over the past four years the number of smokers in the country increased from 22.6 to 30 per cent of the total population, mainly due to the emergence of nicotine dependence in children and adolescents. Smokes every eight students.
The main cause of youth smoking - paradoxically low prices on cigarettes that become available sweets and soft drinks. Prices, in turn, are determined sverhlgotnym taxation of tobacco companies - manufacturers of cigarettes give Kazakhstan in the form of excise only 12 tenge per pack of cigarettes. For comparison: in the EU excise tax amounts to 2.02 euros, or 451 tenge per pack, plus 57 percent additional tax on the retail price.
In Russia, the excise tax on tobacco is indexed annually and has already achieved in terms of ruble 96 tenge per pack, that is, an average of 54 percent of its selling price. Domestic taxation of tobacco companies have sharply increased in 2008, which allowed to reallocate the savings for pensions and wages.
We also have even gone to such a highly unpopular measure as the postponement of salary increases to doctors and teachers, but somehow guard tobacco companies. Meanwhile, increased excise taxes to 40 tenge per pack of cigarettes would get up to 45 billion tenge additional tax revenues and solve many social problems.
In 2008, the increase in tobacco excise taxes have already been on the agenda in the Senate of the Parliament, and only one vote "against" - 19 to 18 - allowed the manufacturers of cigarettes got off lightly. Now, with the spread of tobacco consumption in Kazakhstan has reached epidemic proportions, adequate taxation of tobacco companies - is "what the doctor ordered."
Two in one - save her from the smoky plague children and save the social costs of the country. When this is done, if not now?
Coalition "For Kazakhstan, free from tobacco smoke", which unites more than 720 organizations and 42 000 individuals invited to the president in a video. Coalition members urged to increase tobacco excise taxes. Until now, foreign tobacco companies, fully control the production of cigarettes in Kazakhstan, happily off with only a cosmetic increase in taxation.
According to the coalition over the past four years the number of smokers in the country increased from 22.6 to 30 per cent of the total population, mainly due to the emergence of nicotine dependence in children and adolescents. Smokes every eight students.
The main cause of youth smoking - paradoxically low prices on cigarettes that become available sweets and soft drinks. Prices, in turn, are determined sverhlgotnym taxation of tobacco companies - manufacturers of cigarettes give Kazakhstan in the form of excise only 12 tenge per pack of cigarettes. For comparison: in the EU excise tax amounts to 2.02 euros, or 451 tenge per pack, plus 57 percent additional tax on the retail price.
In Russia, the excise tax on tobacco is indexed annually and has already achieved in terms of ruble 96 tenge per pack, that is, an average of 54 percent of its selling price. Domestic taxation of tobacco companies have sharply increased in 2008, which allowed to reallocate the savings for pensions and wages.
We also have even gone to such a highly unpopular measure as the postponement of salary increases to doctors and teachers, but somehow guard tobacco companies. Meanwhile, increased excise taxes to 40 tenge per pack of cigarettes would get up to 45 billion tenge additional tax revenues and solve many social problems.
In 2008, the increase in tobacco excise taxes have already been on the agenda in the Senate of the Parliament, and only one vote "against" - 19 to 18 - allowed the manufacturers of cigarettes got off lightly. Now, with the spread of tobacco consumption in Kazakhstan has reached epidemic proportions, adequate taxation of tobacco companies - is "what the doctor ordered."
Two in one - save her from the smoky plague children and save the social costs of the country. When this is done, if not now?
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