Smoke Free Air Laws

The implementation of smoke-free laws did not transpire overnight or even over a short time period. It was through the implementation and modifying small health policies that focused on reducing health issues because of tobacco use and promoting the rights to breathe clean air. The following timeline provides specific years and the policies that were legislated which have assisted in the existing progression of smoke-free laws. The U. S. Department of Health & Human Services (2016) indicated: 1964 - First Report of the Surgeon General’s Advisory Committee on Smoking and Health, 1965 – Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act, 1970 – Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, 1984 – Comprehensive Smoking Education Act, 1988 …show more content…
Although most understand that secondhand smoke occurs in other locations such as outside at a neighbor’s house, in a car with a friend or loved one however, the nonsmoker can make a decision to leave that atmosphere. When a nonsmoker goes into a restaurant and is seated next to a smoker, yes they have the ability to get up and leave but how is that fair. This law was enacted to promote clean air and to support those who do not smoke from being subjected to the toxins from the …show more content…
Being raised by a mom who has been smoking since she was 16, she struggled with the idea of going to a restaurant to have dinner and not being able to enjoy a cigarette after dinner. She would be an individual that would argue she is being penalized because she is a smoker. Her views are based upon it is her right to smoke as long as cigarettes are deemed legal. Limiting the areas where she can smoke takes away her rights. When I was younger, we used to travel for competition cheer and we always had to make sure that the hotel we stayed at had a room that allowed smoking. I still remember the horrible stale smell in the rooms and no matter what was sprayed in the room; it would not eliminate the