The atmosphere of contempt, which advocates a healthy lifestyle offer surround all smokers to achieve positive results very difficult. For example, smokers, patients in hospitals do not quit the habit, they are only more carefully hidden from the eyes of cigarettes medical personnel. The same applies to people coming for outpatient medical care - they just do not tell the doctor that smoking, not to run into a sermon.
That is the conclusion reached by researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada. In this country, anti-smoking has been going on for several decades, the authorities have taken stringent restrictive laws against smokers . They managed to achieve what fans cigarettes were subjected to universal condemnation and censure.
"People are made to feel very very bad about their bad habits, but guilt does not help a person give up smoking - Says study author anthropologist Kristen Bell. - They just feel negative about themselves, but the ability to give up the habit seems to them unreal. Especially because no help in that they do not receive, only the condemnation. "
But against such allegations psychologists and anthropologists can argue statistics. In 1960, Canada had smoked 50% of the adult population. Today, that figure is only 20%. For comparison, in Russian smoke about 70% of males and 30% females. In our country, there are some restrictions about smoking, which, unfortunately, exist only on paper. And one of the main perpetrators of these laws are themselves policemen.
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