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Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities but has been interpreted by the courts as not creating any new substantive rights Colorado: 1990 CO REV. STAT. ANN § 24-34-402.5 Not specific to tobacco use, covers all lawful activities Connecticut: 2003 CT GEN. STAT. ANN. § 31-40s District of Columbia: 1993 D.C. CODE ANN. § 7-1703.3 ...
A 1992 document from Phillip Morris summarised the tobacco industry's concern about the effects of smoking bans: "Total prohibition of smoking in the workplace strongly effects tobacco industry volume. Smokers facing these restrictions consume 11%–15% less than average and quit at a rate that is 84% higher than average."
The Act exempts private residences and vehicles while not being used as a childcare or healthcare facility, designated hotel/motel smoking rooms, retail tobacco stores, cigar lounges and hookah bars, other tobacco-related workplaces such as importers and distributors, facilities where smoking research is conducted, psychiatric facilities, long ...
Truth Initiative was founded in 1999 as a result of the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (MSA). The MSA was announced in 1998, resolving the lawsuits brought by 46 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and five territories against the major U.S. cigarette companies, to recover state Medicaid and other costs from caring for sick smokers.
The on-the-spot fine for smoking in a workplace is £50 (~€70/~$100), while a business that allows smoking can be fined £2,500 (~€3,700/~$5,000). A £200 fine may be levied by local councils if businesses fail to display no-smoking signs. An opinion poll showed that 91% of people supported the law. [283] [284]
NIDA also publishes non-technical reports of this research for benefit of the public, as well as publications that summarize what is known about nicotine addiction and tobacco cessation programs. Office of the Surgeon General: Publishes in print and on the web, a variety of materials related to smoking health issues and cessation of smoking. [7]
The primary goal of the bill was to prohibit smoking in indoor public places and workplaces to benefit the public interest. [7] The Smoke-Free Air Act stated that separate sections for smoking and nonsmoking sections in workplaces and indoor public areas were not eliminating the health hazard to nonsmokers and banning smoking altogether in these areas was a necessary solution to this problem.
The tobacco control field comprises the activity of disparate health, policy and legal research and reform advocacy bodies across the world. These took time to coalesce into a sufficiently organised coalition to advance such measures as the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and the first article of the first edition of the Tobacco Control journal suggested that ...