Government Research Paper: Michael L.
Smoking Bans The federal government has established many laws against smoking to protect the rights of the non-smoking community such as: restricting smokers to designated smoking areas putting up no smoking signs and so on. The three branches of government all have their own view and method of going about this law.
The legislative branch has had these laws in effect ever since 1998 and the law shall be followed for there are penalties to these crimes no matter how little. Not only have they put a ban on cigarettes, but mechanical cigarettes, chewing Tabaco, snuff, and vapors. Although there are bans for smokers at just about everywhere across the U.S., the smoking ban pertains only to government buildings …show more content…
Not only was there smokers dying, but other people that did not smoke caught second-hand smoke and end up in the hospital or in a graveyard. ‘’Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable and premature death, killing an estimated 443,000 Americans each year. Cigarette smoking costs the nation $96 billion in direct medical costs and $97 billion in lost productivity annually. In addition to the billions in medical costs and lost productivity, tobacco is enacting a heavy toll on young people’’ (Kathleen Sebelius). The smoker was not always an adult, president officials say one of the hardest things to do is stop under-aged smoking because it is starting to take our youth little by little. That why they put the no individualized sell From 1997 to 2004 youth smoking fell rapidly. Since that time smoking among high school seniors has continued to fall, but slowly from 24.4% in 2003 to 18.7% in 2010 (daily smoking among youth has fallen from 16.8% in 1999 to 7.3% in 2009). Since 2003 prevalence among adults has fallen from 21.6 to 19.3% in 2010 The current problem is not that the evidence-based tools that drove the progress from 1997 to 2004 stopped working; it is that they have not been applied with sufficient effort or nationwide on the side of the box and why they make sure you are eighteen on your id at retail stores (Howard,
Smoking Bans The federal government has established many laws against smoking to protect the rights of the non-smoking community such as: restricting smokers to designated smoking areas putting up no smoking signs and so on. The three branches of government all have their own view and method of going about this law.
The legislative branch has had these laws in effect ever since 1998 and the law shall be followed for there are penalties to these crimes no matter how little. Not only have they put a ban on cigarettes, but mechanical cigarettes, chewing Tabaco, snuff, and vapors. Although there are bans for smokers at just about everywhere across the U.S., the smoking ban pertains only to government buildings …show more content…
Not only was there smokers dying, but other people that did not smoke caught second-hand smoke and end up in the hospital or in a graveyard. ‘’Tobacco is the leading cause of preventable and premature death, killing an estimated 443,000 Americans each year. Cigarette smoking costs the nation $96 billion in direct medical costs and $97 billion in lost productivity annually. In addition to the billions in medical costs and lost productivity, tobacco is enacting a heavy toll on young people’’ (Kathleen Sebelius). The smoker was not always an adult, president officials say one of the hardest things to do is stop under-aged smoking because it is starting to take our youth little by little. That why they put the no individualized sell From 1997 to 2004 youth smoking fell rapidly. Since that time smoking among high school seniors has continued to fall, but slowly from 24.4% in 2003 to 18.7% in 2010 (daily smoking among youth has fallen from 16.8% in 1999 to 7.3% in 2009). Since 2003 prevalence among adults has fallen from 21.6 to 19.3% in 2010 The current problem is not that the evidence-based tools that drove the progress from 1997 to 2004 stopped working; it is that they have not been applied with sufficient effort or nationwide on the side of the box and why they make sure you are eighteen on your id at retail stores (Howard,