{"id":38696,"date":"2026-05-25T21:35:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/sweden-becomes-a-smoke-free-country-the-smoking-rate-falls-below-5-percent\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:35:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:35:54","slug":"sweden-becomes-a-smoke-free-country-the-smoking-rate-falls-below-5-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/sweden-becomes-a-smoke-free-country-the-smoking-rate-falls-below-5-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden becomes a &#8220;smoke-free&#8221; country, the smoking rate falls below 5 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jo-cigare.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Sweden has achieved its goal of having less than 5 percent of the population smoke regularly, effectively becoming a &#8220;smoke-free&#8221; country, Radio Sweden reported today, Anadolu broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Information Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs has confirmed this achievement, stating that the country has now met its long-term public health goal for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1980s, more than 30 percent of Swedes smoked on a daily basis, the council pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>This decrease represents a steady decline over several decades, while public health policies and changing social habits have contributed to declining smoking rates across the country.<\/p>\n<p>We use cookies to improve the experience and display ads (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweden has achieved its goal of having less than 5 percent of the population smoke regularly, effectively becoming a &#8220;smoke-free&#8221; country, Radio Sweden reported today, Anadolu broadcasts. The Swedish Information Council on Alcohol and Other Drugs has confirmed this achievement, stating that the country has now met its long-term public health goal for 2025. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-38696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":18,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38698,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38696\/revisions\/38698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}