Three Ways To Further Curb Public Smoking
Legislators have been working hard in studying the growing concern of second hand smoking, and its effects on the non-smoking population. Most restaurants Nationwide, have been required remove their smoking section and to require that all smoking be done not only outside of the restaurant, but a required distance away from the front door.
Some hotels have followed in this as well by removing most of their rooms that at one point in time allowed guest who smoke to stay in them. Smoking is also no longer allowed in the restaurants and lounges of some hotels in the United States either.
The no smoking laws make some businesses exempt from following it. Stores who profit from only selling tobacco products like Cigar’s, Cigarette’s, and Chewing Tobacco, is an example of a business that is exempt from this law.
Organizations who study the effects of smoking and its consequences is also exempt from following these laws.
Private residences are currently exempt from this unless it is a Licensed Day Care Facility and then these laws do apply.
The only ways that these current laws can be made more strict to save lives is to make it illegal to smoke in or around nursing home facilities, take away the remaining smoking rooms in hotel’s, and make it illegal for people who work with children to smoke around children who are not their own.