Supermarkets, gas stations and convenience stores must immediately stop selling cigarettes. Cancer patients, hospitals, doctors and KWF Kankerbestrijding are making that call today in the AD.
The internet sale of tobacco will no longer be allowed from 2023 and from 2024 supermarkets will no longer be allowed to sell tobacco products. Filling stations and so-called convenience stores such as Bruna, Primera and AKO may continue to do so until at least 2030. But the initiators believe that tobacco should only be sold in a tobacconist’s shop.
Bad to cure, good to prevent
“It really has to be done faster than it is now. We think it is much too late that filling stations should not stop until 2030,” said spokeswoman Annebel Schipper of KWF Kankerbestrijding in the newspaper. NOS Radio 1 News.
The number of lung cancer patients continues to rise, according to new numbers† In 2021, 14,700 new lung cancer patients were added. “Only one in four of those patients is still alive after five years,” says Schipper. “It is also a form of cancer that is very difficult to cure, but very well preventable: 80 percent of cases are caused by smoking.”
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