Why does Ukraine Graze the back in the Fight Against Tobacco Lobbying?
November 30, 2020
Ukraine ranked 27th out of 34 places in the ranking on this index, receiving 68 points. This figure is worse than the previous report, which covered 2017-2018, when the result was 61 points.
On November 30, Ukrinform presented the second Global Index of Tobacco Industry Intervention in Public Health Policy. Ukraine ranked 27th out of 34 places in the ranking on this index, receiving 68 points. This figure is worse than the previous report, which covered 2017-2018, when the result was 61 points. According to the research methodology, the higher the score, the stronger the intervention of the tobacco industry. The highest scores and, accordingly, the worst situation with the intervention of the tobacco industry were in Japan (88 points), Indonesia (82 points), Zambia (78 points), and the lowest scores were given to the State of Brunei Darussalam (14 points), France (27 points), the United Kingdom (32 points), where governments more effectively counteract tobacco companies.
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.
If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.
Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction.
Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.
Chuck Close
