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The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World is an organization focused on smoking harm reduction founded in 2017. In May 2024, it changed its name to Global Action to End Smoking. The World Health Organization (WHO) urged not to collaborate with this front organization of the tobacco industry.
Koop issued a challenge to Americans in 1984 to "create a smoke-free society in the United States by the year 2000." [21] As Surgeon General, he released eight reports on the health consequences of tobacco use, [22] including the first report on the health consequences of involuntary tobacco smoke exposure.
As of July 1, 2020, smoke free policy expanded to include the use of all tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, hookah, e-cigarettes (vapes), chewing tobacco, snuff, snus, and IQOS. This includes all employees, faculty, patients, visitors, volunteers, students, and vendors on any Duke owned or leased properties.
The Government is currently on track to miss its target to make England smoke-free by 2030, which means 5% or fewer adults smoke. Ban smoking outside pubs and on beaches, major report...
Moreover, smoke-free laws that ban smoking in public places like workplaces, theaters, bars, and restaurants have been enacted to reduce exposure to second-hand smoke. Tobacco taxes inflating the price of tobacco products have also been imposed.
New York Hospitals Grounds Are Now Mandated Smoke-Free - Yorktown-Somers, NY - Residential health care facilities must go fully smoke-free too.
List of smoking bans. A pictogram is often used to denote a smoking ban. Smoking bans are public policies, including criminal laws and occupational safety and health regulations, which prohibit tobacco smoking in certain spaces. Laws pertaining to where people may smoke vary around the world.
Terrie Hall. Terrie Linn McNutt Hall (July 19, 1960 – September 16, 2013) was an American anti-smoking and anti-tobacco advocate. She was a survivor of ten cancer diagnoses, undergoing 48 radiation treatments, and nearly a year's worth of chemotherapy, before and after undergoing a laryngectomy in 2001. [3] She was well known for starring in ...
In 2020, Slovenia launched a program with the purpose to become a tobacco-free society by 2040, as the last useful date. South Africa. Smoking in public is banned. This includes pubs, bars, walkways, and parking spaces. Smoking on public transport and domestic flights.
National Non-Smoking Week is a yearly event in Canada. Established in 1977, it continues to be observed on the third full week of January, starting on Sunday. Coordinated by the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control, it aims to: Assist in the attainment of a smoke-free society in Canada.