In the middle of this simple city with houses not really well
conserved with ruins and abandoned buildings around, I just arrived in a modern
mall that I didn't feel to be in the same city anymore.
A big building in good location in the town that
could be a commercial building located in western of Europe. Full of these
brand stores, American fast food, a cinema and a game station. I didn't really
expected that it could see a fancy place like that there, considering what I
was seeing in my way to there. I was still discovering Mostar.
The interesting stuff is that inside the Mall
you're allowed to smoke. I felt myself in this movies recorded 30 years ago,
when you could smoke everywhere, like airplanes, shops, classroom and even
hospitals. Thanks for the time and how the science proved how harmful the
industrialized tobacco is. I use to smoke tobacco regularly, trying to reduce
until the point that I'll stop, but for me it's kind insane to imagine someone
smoking in hospitals, classroom or airplanes. If you never heard about it, Google
something like: Smoking + Hospitals + Past. You also try to replace the word
hospital for any other place that you think to be a non-appropriated place to
smoke.
About smoking in the mall, for me it seemed
really natural. I just didn't know that it was still allowed in some countries
in nowadays. Even in Brazil I wouldn't imagine to see it. In this mall the
consumers are allowed to smoke just in the common areas, not inside the shops.
It makes all of sense, because even walking in the common area that there were
smokers I couldn't feel the strong smell of cigarettes or see any concentrated
smoke around. I liked the idea that allows people be free to smoke inside,
mainly in the winter time that is cold outside, at the same time the smoking of
them don't disturb other that much. I don't how it would be if 50 people would
decide to smoke at the same time in this floor, I hope that it doesn't happen
often.
In fact Bosnia has different smoking polices
than European Union. Since 2007 was prohibited to smoke inside public
buildings, but just in 2016 the country started to control to consumption of
Tobacco, mainly in the advertising of the brands. However this is no law that
prohibits Bosnia to smoke in Health care facilities, Schools, Universities,
indoor office and work places, restaurants, cafes, pubs, bars, public
transports or any other place indoor. In fact I've never been in many of these
places to see if they smoke inside or not, but I believe that each place has
its own policies. Bars, cafes and restaurants were places that I could easily
see people smoking inside.
As smoker I don't care to be in a place that
everyone is smoking if at least there is a good air circulation, but I can
perfectly imagine how bad it is for someone that don't smoke and don't want to
be a passive smoker.
It's something cultural, but it represents also
a serious national heath problem. Bosnia has the 4th highest percentage of
daily smokers in Europe, just losing from Russians, Serbians and Greeks.
The Bosnian government made a research that from
the 1.2 million of current smokers, half of this amount is going to die
prematurely. The government is using some keys that would prevent a premature
life of 200.000 people for the next 15 years. You can check it in the link in
the ending of the article for more information.
I don't even know how effective are these new
strategies to control the consumption of tobacco, but I hope that it can work.
References:
http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0012/312600/Tobacco-control-fact-sheet-BosniaHerzegovina.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_smoking_bans
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