Cigarette prices to rise.The SFr 10-a-pack deterrent de·ter·rent adj. Tending to deter: deterrent weapons. n. 1. Something that deters: a deterrent to theft. 2. supported by Swiss President Pascal Couchepin Pascal Couchepin (born April 5, 1942) is a Swiss politician who has been a member of the Swiss Federal Council since 1998. He was elected to the Swiss Federal Council on March 11, 1998 as a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD) and French speaking Valais. isn't in the cards at this point, but the price of a smoke will rise by summer. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Federal Health Office, the price of a pack will probably increase between SFr 0.50 and SFr 0.50 in 2009, putting the average cost at around SFr 6.50. Office director Thomas Zeltner says a ten per cent price hike can reduce smoking by five per cent, but any decision to increase the price to SFr 10 would have to be approved by parliament. Cabinet is only empowered to approve an increase of SFr 0.90. In other news, smoking was linked to diabetes in recent research. Dr. Carole Willi and colleagues with the University of Lausanne The University of Lausanne (in French: Université de Lausanne) or UNIL in Lausanne, Switzerland was founded in 1537 as a school of theology, before being made a university in 1890. Today about 10,000 students and 2200 researchers study and work at the university. found that smokers face a 44 per cent higher risk of developing the increasingly common Type-2 diabetes. The risk diminished di·min·ish v. di·min·ished, di·min·ish·ing, di·min·ish·es v.tr. 1. a. To make smaller or less or to cause to appear so. b. significantly after quitting, said the researchers, who tracked more than a million people for up to 30 years. Smoking is held to be responsible for nine per cent of deaths, worldwide. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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