Bad news for the smokers in the UK

 Although everyone knows that smoking is extremely harmful, people don't seem to care. What influence can your addiction have on your life and more important on the quality of your life? Well, the statistics don't look too bright now: around 8 million people are smoking, 80.000 deaths from smoking diseases happen every year and what is more concerning is that approximately  200.000 children start smoking at an early age not being able to realize the consequences of their actions and how these  consequences can affect their health ( but I guess the rule of the forbidden fruit couldn't make exception in this case either).

According to Royal College, cigarettes cost 100 million lives in the UK ( unless current smokers actually quit), as an individual who is a regular smoker shortens his or her life with 10 years. No matter how many campaigns are going to be realized in order to reduce the number of smokers in the UK ( and why not in the entire world) things cannot be dramatically changed from a year to another. Even though now, there are rumors that the smoking ban is said to be extended to parks and other public areas and there are going to be taken legal action so that children can be protected from becoming second hand smokers, reality speaks for itself. Since the middle of the 20th century there has was produces a seismic shift, people started to smoke even more than they did in the past. 

So, in order to fight this battle against smoking,the Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley declared in a speech at the Royal College of Physicians that this war is not over any they will continue trying to reduce the numbers of the smokers. As a next step, supermarkets will be forced to remove tobacco displays on April 6 and all other shops will have to end them in April 2015. Are these measures going to make a difference?