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March Sunday is part of Caja no-smoking campaign
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

The nation's health professionals are organizing a march, called a caminata, against tobacco for Sunday as part of a campaign against smoking.

The campaign includes radio spots by those who suffer from illnesses caused by smoking. These start today. The campaign is a preparation for the World Day against Tobacco, which is a week from today.

The march Sunday kicks off at 8 a.m. and ends on Avenida 4 to the main office of the Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social.

The Caja said it expects physicians, nurses, technicians and former smokers to join the march against what it calls an addiction that can cause two of the illnesses that cause 50 percent of the country's deaths each year, cancer and cirulatory problems.

Costa Rica has passed a tough anti-smoking law and has signed on to an international treaty against tobacco. But the various health agencies are not backing off the effort to eliminate smoking.

The radio spots will be 60 seconds each and present personal stories of smokers and some who have quit through the Caja's stop-smoking clinics, said an announcement.

Monday, workers at the Caja will be invited to see a 10 a.m. videoconference that addresses strategies for prevention and intervention to stop smoking, said the Caja.

The Caja notes that smoking is one of the principal causes of death in the world and that more than
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1 billion people smoke. Internationally, the World Health Organization is leading a crusade against what it says is one of the principal forms of drug addition.

The new anti-smoking legislation basically forbids smoking in offices and many public places. This is why there usually are clusters of smokers on the sidewalks outside office buildings and other workplaces. The legislation also forbids tobacco advertising and the sponsorship of public events by tobacco companies.

Cosponsoring the walk Sunday is the Instituto sobre Alcoholismo y Farmacodependencia. The event starts at the central offices of the Institute in Barrio la Granje in San Pedro.

Ironically, Costa Rica is a famed manufacturer of cigars that equal some of the better Cuban varieties.


Dip in business perception blamed on utility prices
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff

The business community's perception of the future is off slightly, according to a survey reflecting opinions in the first three months of the year. And part of the concern is the soaring rate of regulated utilities, according to the chamber that has been taking the survey for the last 17 years.

The survey of 499 firms reported the average confidence to be 5.3 on a 10-point scale, six-tenths of a point lower than the same period in 2012, said the  Unión Costarricense de Cámaras y Asociaciones del Sector Empresarial Privado.

The chamber also said that business leaders were also anxious of the slow pace of approval of the trade accord between Central America and the European Union. Costa Rican lawmakers have passed the agreement for the first time, but the final vote is awaiting an opinion by the Sala IV constitutional court, the chamber noted.
The business community's confidence level remained at 6,7, according to the survey results.

The chamber in its interpretation of the results said that the price of electricity has increased 42 percent and water has gone up 58 percent.

It said that an index of prices of services regulated by the Autoridad Reguladora de Servicios Públicos has gone up 16 percent in the last 12 months while unregulated prices have increased just 3.73 percent. Both electrical power and water markets are dominated by government agencies.

The chamber called upon the legislature to pass a proposal that would allow private generation of electricity, mainly from renewable sources.

The chamber also called on the Autoridad to revise its methodology that is used to compute the prices of regulated utilities.

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