Latest Front in the War to Protect Nonsmokers
Jump to full article: PR Insider (at), 2008-06-25
Intro: A clear majority wants smoking banned in all homes, even if children are not present, and even if the smoke is not drifting into an adjoining dwelling.
This could expand the latest front in the war to protect nonsmokers, says the man who started the nonsmokers' movement by getting smoking first restricted and then banned on airplanes and then in workplaces and public places, and who is racking up victories in the battle to ban smoking in private dwellings and cars.
According to a new survey, 57% of the people in Ireland support a ban on smoking in all homes and cars.
This could indicate growing support for smoking bans both here and abroad, says public interest law professor John Banzhaf of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) -- America's first antismoking organization, and the group behind restrictions on smoking in
homes in almost three fourths of the states -- because the percentage of smokers in Ireland is substantially higher than in the US.
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