Young Smokers in Europe

In my group we talked about 15 year-olds in Europe who smoke every day. We found out that Bulgaria has more than 25% of teenagers who smoke every day. So we asked ourselves why are so much teenagers smoking and where do they get their cigarettes? 

We think that the laws aren’t strict enough or rather not in all countries in Europe. For example in Bulgaria you don’t need an ID, so everyone can buy a cigarette. That isn’t good because cigarettes aren’t healthy for teenagers and adults either. I’ve taken some notes how we can reduce the number of smokers; my first idea was to demand the identity card from everyone. This way the teens can’t get cigarettes anymore. 

The second idea was to sell the cigarettes at a higher price. This way some teenagers can’t buy them anymore because they haven’t enough money to get them every day and perhaps the adults won’t buy them as often as they have done before. 

And my third and last idea was to sell the cigarettes not at every petrol station and not in all discounters or supermarkets. For example; if every city got only 1 or 2 shops which sells cigarettes maybe the people think that it isn’t worth the trouble to drive so far.

I think if every country (no matter where) would introduced some of these ideas the number of smoking teenagers and smoking adults would decrease.

D. S. 9F2