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In October 2020, Louis Ng a Member of Parliament called for a ban on residents smoking near windows or at the balconies of HDB flats and private apartments arguing that second hand smoke is a “public health concern”, while at the same time noting that some 383 people in Singapore had died from second hand smoke. [19] [20]
A Smoking Advertisement Unit was set up by the Ministry, and officers were located in areas that had any type of tobacco advertisement within the few months before the blanket ban on tobacco advertising kicked off on 1 March 1971. [39] Twenty-one years later, in 1992, cigarette advertising in foreign magazines was banned in Singapore.
In 2010 Nepal planned to enact a new anti-smoking bill that would ban smoking in public places and outlaw all tobacco advertising to prevent young people from smoking. [54] On 31 May 2011 Venezuela introduced a ban on smoking in all enclosed public and commercial spaces, including malls, restaurants, bars, discos, workplaces, etc. [55]
TV stars and social media influencers still show a lot of tobacco use, despite rules against the advertising of tobacco products.
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The smoking ban applies to all public areas where non-smokers could suffer from second-hand smoke including open public areas like sport stadiums, arenas, open-air theatres, tram and bus stations etc. [65] [66] [67] On 10 September 2009 the regulations restricting smoking in bars and cafes in Croatia was partially repealed for a grace period ...
Vaping has changed how people see smoking, in part due to tobacco companies marketing to young adults, ... Columbus ban on flavored tobacco begins Jan. 1 as state lawmakers aim to snuff it out.
The pattern of smoking among youth has had a slightly different trajectory, such that smoking rates for high school students began to increase in the early 1990s and did not begin to decrease until the end of the decade. [6] If the current smoking trends continue, 5.6 million youths alive today will die prematurely. [7]