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'Incredible' milestone reached as Sweden becomes a smoke-free country

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'Incredible' milestone reached as Sweden becomes a smoke-free country

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Uplifting News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago

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Sweden has reached its target of fewer than five percent of the population smoking regularly – and is consequently considered "smoke-free".

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it’s somewhat nice to not risk fires breaking out, though.
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  They are just in different places though. All the lithium batteries keep causing fires in bin lorries and recycling/waste processing places

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