The Netherlands smoke free
Appeal to the new government to realise a smoke free country. Support this call from the Board of Directors of the leading cancer research institute in the country.
Petition
We
sympathisers of the call of the Board of Directors of the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
establish that:
just like in the call in short:
Every day at least 55 people die in the Netherlands because of smoking
smoking costs the Netherlands more than 30 billion euro per year
the treasury does not gain anything from smoking: smokers live shorter, have a lower quality of life, absent more often, take more breaks and have higher health costs.
two out of three smokers die because of the consequences of tobacco, a quarter of them already before retirement
without smking, there would be more money for research into the treatment of avoidable cancers
out of 90 countries, the knowledge about tobacco in the Netherlands is the lowest
smoking is one of the most intense addictions, the tobacco industry knows this and exploits this scandalously
Smoking is an illness realised by intensive marketing, unlimited lobbying, social pressure, peer group pressure, and cultural factors
and request
make the Netherlands smoke free.