How Facts About Smoking Affect Anti-Smoking Laws

Giving More Teeth to Anti-Smoking Laws?implications of smoking cigarettes and secondhand
Non-smokers are now inhaling less secondhandsmoke. Schools are enlisting to support non-smoking
smoke. This development was reported by the UScampaigns on the campus.
Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This isIn Florida, USA the state will be spending $55 million to
owed to the efforts of lawmakers to ban smoking inprevent teenage smoking. The strategy is to stop
specific public areas. However, there is still a need tonicotine addiction before it starts. It can be recalled that
strengthen local and international laws against cigaretteFlorida was one of the first American states to win a
smoking. Public awareness about the facts aboutlawsuit against tobacco companies for misleading the
smoking helps too.public about the dangers of smoking amid warnings
The self-destructive habit of millions of Americans hadand facts about smoking.
officials scurrying to pass anti-smoking laws. TheWhy Cigarette Smoking Should Be Banned
Surgeon General is getting full support fromSmoking is a vicious habit that should be nipped in the
governments worldwide. The World Healthbud before it can start. It causes a host of deadly
Organization (WHO) Framework Convention onheart and lung conditions and affects non-smokers
Tobacco Control, which took effect on February 28,through secondhand smoke. There are better and less
2005, banned smoking in workplaces, bars, restaurants,known facts about smoking but the strongest
and public transport.argument for quitting the lethal tobacco is the early
But the real sting is the higher taxes to be imposedgrave and the overwhelming medical expenses for
and the ban on advertising. The battle against cigarettecancer treatments.
smoking will create quite a stir in the tobacco industry,Tobacco companies are targeting the youth with
which supports millions of workers worldwide. Thecandy flavored cigarettes and slick packaging.
tobacco industry, which is a major source ofAddiction can start with the first puff and continue for
government revenues, will do their best to protect theira lifetime with dire results. The best time to quit the
interests.habit is to nip it before it can even start.
US LawsTobacco Backlash
In the US, stringent laws banning cigarette smoking inSmoking kills. This is a fact, and there are emerging
indoor public areas are put into effect. In California,issues about it. Desperate tobacco companies are
three cities - Calabasas, Burbank, and Santa Monicataking up arms against anti-smoking campaigns.
are regulating non-smoking and smoking areasAccording to them, loss of revenues will also affect
outdoors. This is to protect residents and tourists frommillions of workers worldwide. Other negative
secondhand smoke, which has contributed to severaldevelopments are cigarette smuggling and dumping the
health issues.tobacco products in third world countries. But should
In the enclosed workplace, smoking is banned. The lawthese be considered in the light of the dangers
requires employers to designate smoking andsmoking exposes to the public?
non-smoking areas. The smoking and non-smokingSmokers are also up in arms about the violation of
signs should be prominently displayed and should betheir right to smoke, but efforts continue to educate
strictly enforced. Violation of the law will costthe public on facts about smoking - in schools, in the
employers stiff fines.internet, print media, and other forms of interactive
As laws are enacted, public support is necessary to airmedia. The debate reasons that if smokers have the
the facts about smoking that can help the public,right to smoke and kill themselves, they should not
especially the youth, to understand the healthinclude the unsuspecting public.