Recent statistics show that cigarette sales in Germany are beginning to drop. But I’m quite optimistic that these events and ultimately the support of people will lead to a positive development towards a smoke-free Germany and also regarding cooperation within the European Union," Puska said. "It is true that in Germany there is fairly big pressure from the tobacco industry. "I'm quite convinced that this big success of Quit and Win, and, of course, the luck in the international draw will contribute to the tobacco policy development in Germany," Pekka Puska, chairman of the campaign and head of the Helsinki-based Public Health Institute of Finland, said. The campaign's organizers were optimistic that Germany's bad habits might be changing for the better. With over 90,000 would-be non-smokers, Germany topped the field, leaving Cuba's 81,000 and Russia’s 60,000 participants in places two and three. Karl-Heinz Evers (left) managed to quit smoking after 32 years.īut that image of Germany may no longer be accurate, seeing as no other country had more participants taking part in the WHO's anti-smoking campaign this year, organizers of "Quit and Win 2004" said. Evers hasn't lit up since April 20.Īnti-smoking campaigners might complain about the fact that the prize has gone to Germany of all countries, which is widely regarded as a smokers' paradise with cheap cigarettes available from machines on street corners and very few restrictions on where to light up. The campaign participants were required to pledge to stop smoking for four weeks from May 1, 2004.
I couldn’t do all that before because I was really sick." I can ride my bicycle again and can do sports. "After smoking 60 cigarettes a day for such a long time, you feel greatly relieved and much more active. "I feel brilliant," Evers said (photo, below).
His pleasure has only been enhanced by the $10,000 prize he won. The 53-year-old from the northern town of Lübeck said he feels like he's been reborn six months after he ended a smoking career of almost three packs of cigarettes daily for the past 32 years. Karl-Heinz Evers was drawn from 700,000 participants worldwide in the "Quit and Win 2004" campaign sponsored by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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