Smoking Bans are spreading Worldwide

Online, October 29, 2009 (Newswire.com) - Many countries now have bans on smoking in public places to some degree (i.e., Bahrein, Croatia, Gambia, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Pakistan, South Africa,Turkey, Ukraine, etc) with Syria & Kazakhstan being recent additions. 26 States in the US now have some level of public place smoking bans. Anti-smoking legislation is scheduled to come into effect in many more countries within the next six months. Some bodies have moved to protect the health of children & others from the dangers of smoking &/or second-hand smoke. For example, it is illegal to smoke in a vehicle when minors are also present in both South Africa & in parts of Australia. In October 2009, a woman in New South Wales Australia, was prosecuted for smoking in a car with a 3-year-old passenger. Britain is passing legislation banning sale of cigarettes & tobacco via vending machines, as well as outlawing displays of tobacco products by retailers - both laws designed to stem smoking by children & young people.

Some legislative bodies have focused on smoking in the workplace, one case in point being the Ontario Canadian truck-driver prosecuted & fined in October 2009 for smoking in his vehicle, as that was classed as his workplace. But this is common in Belfast Ireland, where it's estimated that 88% of smokers prosecuted for violating smoking bans are commercial drivers; a smoking ban has been in effect there for about two years. There are many instances of existing or proposed smoking bans in governmental or institutional facilities, such as prisons, hospitals, medical facilities, schools & colleges, etc., while some extend to multiple-housing - such as apartments & condos.

Apart from the many obvious health & financial benefits to smokers who quit, smoking bans reduce the risk of heart disease which comes from second-hand smoke, as reported on by the Institute of Medicine, part of the National Academies of Sciences, which conducted a major review of numerous studies on smoking and long-term cardiovascular problems. There were eleven key studies of smoking bans in the US, Italy, Canada & Scotland which repeatedly demonstrated a reduction of heart attack rates after bans were implemented. There was a 6- to 47-percent decrease in the incidence of heart attacks in places with smoke-free policies. The report clearly demonstrates that smoking bans bring significant health benefits, "Bans reduce the risks of heart attack in non-smokers as well as smokers," said Lynn Goldman, Professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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