The Russian Ministry of Health intends to completely stop the sale of tobacco products in the country until 2050.

“We have a little over thirty years to complete all the points of the anti-smoking project at the level of state policy,” employees of the Ministry of Health assure. - The plans for the near future - albeit slowly but surely to reduce the popularity of tobacco products among the country's population and slowly withdraw cigarettes and other tobacco products from state circulation. And also reduce the area occupied by tobacco cultivation. "

At this pace, optimists from the Ministry of Health intend to reduce the number of Russian smokers by as much as 25% over the next six years. In twenty years, they are confident in the Ministry, no more than five percent of the population will smoke in Russia.

“There’s simply no more strength to look at how Russians are ruining themselves,” project activists say. - Indeed, all over the world, as many as 20% of all deaths are associated with smoking. And in Russia these indicators are striking in their scale. Moreover, in most cases, it is able-bodied citizens who die! ”