"Children and adolescents should not smoke, and the adults just do not have the right to sell them cigarettes

430 commercial establishments in the five cities of Ukraine participated in the program to prevent access by minors to cigarettes in places where they sell, which is financed by Philip Morris Ukraine teenager coming to stall and asked him to sell cigarettes. If the packet is a kid in his hands, it means that the seller first, violating Ukrainian laws prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to minors and providing for a violation of an administrative penalty, and secondly, the man behind the counter working indifferent. After all, what children and adolescents should not smoke, no one in doubt. That is why for the past eight years of All-Ukrainian charitable organization "The Public Council on Social Development Problems of the younger generation realizes National program to prevent access by minors to cigarettes in places of sale. Financial support for the program of Philip Morris Ukraine ".
- We are opposed to smoking, children, but they unfortunately often have the opportunity to buy cigarettes - said an expert on public relations and media company, Philip Morris Ukraine Olga Royenko. - That is why our company has many years of funding arrangements for the sellers to explain the relevant prohibitions. The results of the checks that we received this year, saying that the state and the public should do more together to solve the problem of teenage smoking in Ukraine.
To implement the program connects 430 commercial establishments in the five cities of Ukraine - Kiev, Simferopol, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk and Odessa. Recently, volunteers checked their stalls, which sell tobacco products to determine whether enough dealers knowingly suited to the problem of child smoking. It was found only in Kiev in 100 (!) Percent of the vendors refused to sell cigarettes to children and adolescents. In Simferopol, these sellers were 86 percent in Dnipropetrovsk - 80, in Odessa - 57, but in Kharkov only 24 per cent. Controls the sale of cigarettes to minors and Gospotrebstandart.
- It is important that employers adhere to the rules of commerce - said during the announcement of results of inspections department director Gospotrebstandarta Pavlo Pastushenko. - I hope that our current testing for the sale of cigarettes to minors will force employers to take seriously the problem of teenage smoking. The state will continue to make efforts to solve this problem.